The Dr. Lee Warren Podcast
When You Love Someone in Recovery (S13E57)
April 6, 202631 min · 6,040 words
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Join me for a great talk with my friend, author and recovery expert Caroline Beidler, about her new book, When You Love Someone in Recovery. About Caroline: Caroline Beidler, MSW, is an author, speaker, and the managing editor of Recovery.com. Her Substack newsletter, Circle of Chairs, reaches thousands weekly. Her writing is described as funny, gritty, relatable, and insightful.
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What I know now, thanks to folks like you, is that using substances also so early affected my brain. It affected the way that I was thinking. It affected my development.
“between 40 and 60% of people with a substance use disorder or struggling with addiction will relapse at some point. And for substances like nicotine or opioids, that number's even higher, close to like 90%.”
“some of the ways that families have been counseled to approach their loved one are frankly wrong. You may have heard of like this concept of tough love, or there's a lot of fear in some family recovery spaces around this idea of enabling. I think it's caused a lot of harm.”
“thinking that addiction is something that can be cured. And it's like, you know, taking an antibiotic, where the doctor prescribes the next type of treatment, you know, take it for 10 days. And then at the end of that treatment, you're cured, and it's over, and it's done. And that's just not the case with a chronic condition.”
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