Addicts In The Dark

A history of abandonment, neglect, or inconsistent nurturing can lead to addiction. For this caller, it's an addiction to adoration.

Co-dependency is known as a “relationship addiction,” where people often form or maintain relationships that are one-sided, emotionally destructive and/or abusive. This caller’s story explains how addicts are especially susceptible to these types of relationships.

So called ‘club drugs’ often seem like a staple or even a requirement for many ravers. This caller explains how club drugs led her from dancing to darkness.

Many people struggling with addiction want to get sober, however they fear what sobriety might entail. While some of those fears can be refuted, others are the result of the stigmas surrounding substance abuse.

Policymakers in North America increasingly recognize that drug use should be treated as a public health issue instead of a criminal issue. This caller’s story begs the question- what about drug dealing?

Societal norms surrounding drug use and addiction continue to be informed by unfounded myths and misconceptions. This caller’s story exemplifies the harmful and unfounded belief that criminal prosecution effectively addresses a person’s addiction issue.

Web-based sex is not only addictive, it’s often free—in a financial sense. However, this caller explains how an inability to unplug can profoundly cost real-life relationships.

Dealing with an addict’s behaviour frequently means enduring their manipulative ways. This type of abuse does not happen because the addict is inherently a bad person, but instead, it’s often because they don’t live in reality and they may perceive threats that do not exist.

People who frequently obsess often develop addictions. These addictions are used as a coping mechanism for their obsessions. This caller's obsessions led to his indiscretions.

Despite all of the tragic losses that result from substance abuse, the most saddening by-product of substance abuse is the neglect, abuse and maltreatment of the children whose parents are addicts. Furthermore, addiction is not a spectator sport. Eventually, the whole family will get to play.