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)