Substance Abuse : How to Live With a Drug Addict

When living with a drug addict, it's important to become educated on addiction and codependency. Discover how to keep from enabling a drug addict with help f...

Hi my name is Dr. Kim Makoi and I am a holistic chiropractor and certified addictionologist in San Francisco, California and this is how to live with a drug addict. It is definitely not easy to live with a drug addict and the first thing you need to do if you are living with one is to educate yourself on addiction and about codependency because every addict has a codependent and if you are living with one and you don't know who the codependent is it is probably you. So educating yourself is the first step and becoming aware of not enabling the addict as much as possible. That means not giving them money and not buying alcohol or drugs for them of course and as much as possible trying to monitor their diets especially with things like sugar and simple carbs, those things often will trigger and increase addictive behavior. A lot of the addicts, a lot of, in recovery a lot of the addicts are told some of the things to stay clean are to make sure that you don't get hungry, lonely or bored so keeping the addict engaged, making sure their blood sugar stays level, those will go a long way to helping. But educating yourself is definitely number one, making sure the addict is not only in some kind of therapy but also yourself because you can't be much of a support system if you don't even know what that means and that is how to live with a drug addict.