Bob Meyers is addicted to addictions. In fact, he has devoted 24 years of his life to encouraging alcoholics and drug abusers to go straight. This is no easy task, but a promising solution, crafted by Meyers, is yielding dramatic results. The indirect result is that the addict usually enters treatment.
Loved ones know the addict's triggers, antecedents, and behavior.
Using this information we build treatment around positive reinforcement and what is fun about life when alcohol or drugs are not involved. CSOs also learn to let addicts suffer the natural consequences of their actions, as well as effective ways to suggest treatment. I'm going to watch TV by myself in the other room'. The final results were dramatic. Their depression, physical ailments, anger, and anxiety diminished substantially.