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Families First Conference
21 November 2013
Tough love & recovery:
“How Tough is Too Tough?”

Nick Barton,
Chief Executive
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Addict+ Tough Love = Recovery ?

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Recovery is

when, by objective measures
the person is no longer suffering from
or is now in remission from the condition
in question;
i.e., no longer exhibiting the symptoms
of addiction.
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Enabling

Tough Love
White text

here

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Addiction
addiction is a consuming relationship
with a substance or behaviour driven
by an urge to feel something different
that becomes self-perpetuating and
results in a range of harmful
consequences
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Parallel
Addiction

Responses

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hopium

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Can you get someone to stop their
addiction by the way you relate to them?

No

9
Can you improve your life by the way you
relate to someone with an addiction?

Yes

10
Advice begins with

Stop
Don’t
Avoid
Do
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12
You? Me? We? Them?

Us

13
Evidence ?

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Thank you for listening

Nick Barton
Chief Executive
Action on Addiction
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