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Identifying Alcohol and Other Drug Dependency

Jimmy quit drinking back in 1999.  He had been a heavy drinker since late adolescence—before he married his high school sweetheart.  Rita had fallen in love with his happy-drunk cheerfulness. He liked beer; she liked Chardonnay. After five years of marriage, however, Rita decided she “wanted to be a grown-up.”  She quit, but Jimmy kept it up. Her perspective about Jimmy’s drunken cheerfulness changed as well—she now saw it as immature and irresponsible.

“How can he keep spending so much money on beer, when he has two children and a mortgage?” she would ask herself. The resentment inside grew a little stronger every day.  Over the next fifteen years of marriage, Rita threatened to leave many times.  She stayed in the marriage however, hoping that he would see how unhappy she was and change.  The arguments would start every night when he pulled his first beer out of the fridge. Her agenda was always, “stop drinking!” His agenda was, “You can’t make me.”  Two days before their twentieth anniversary, Jimmy came home from work to find that Rita, the kids, their clothing, the furniture were gone. The only thing left in the house was the refrigerator and the twelve-pack inside.

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What to Ask When Calling a Drug and Alcohol Rehab Center

One of the most important things that you can do when you are first researching a potential drug and alcohol rehab center is to find out what type of licensing or accreditation they have to be treating people with your particular substance issues. Many general programs exist for people that have only been abusing drugs and alcohol for a short amount or time, or those that have managed to remain fairly “functional” while they were using their drug of choice. However, if you have a more serious problem, it is important to make sure that the doctors and counselors on staff are qualified to handle it.

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