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Living with an Addict

Clues to look for in your child:
  • School habits change (number one symptom of substance abuse): Tardiness
            Falling grades
  • Defensive when questioned
  • Lying
  • Angry responses: “Get off my back.”
  • Excuses
  • Change in circle of friends (to smokers and drinkers)
  • In his/her room more
  • Secretive or evasive
  • Becoming hardened to truth
  • Apathy to spiritual things
  • Physical changes (weight loss, prone to sickness, restlessness, mood swings, illogical thinking, personality changes, depression)
  • Presence of paraphernalia
Clues to look for in an adult:
  • Late home often
  • Brings home less money
  • Makes excuses for where the money and time are spent
  • Gives angry responses when questioned or confronted
  • Change in circle of friends
  •  Changes in spiritual life
  • Lying
  • Secretive or evasive
  • Physical changes (weight loss, prone to sickness, restless, mood         swings, illogical thinking, personality changes, depression)
  • Presence of paraphernalia
For further help, read Addiction: A Family Affair (available for sale on our Almond Tree Materials page)

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Hope Biblical Counseling Center
Bible Baptist Church
2635 South Dixon Road
Kokomo, IN 46902

or call the church at 765-455-1444 and ask to speak to a Hope Biblical Counselor

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