Comments on: Fighting Addiction: The Individual, Family, Community and Government http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/03/fighting-addiction-the-individual-family-community-and-government/ News and views on Utah public policy Wed, 22 May 2013 15:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Steve G. http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/03/fighting-addiction-the-individual-family-community-and-government/#comment-1036 Steve G. Wed, 11 May 2011 17:53:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=175#comment-1036 These are very hard situations. My heart goes out to
your family. I am glad to see that Sutherlands is willing to look at this issue
and realize its complexity. I have worked in this field some as a Registered
Nurse, but I am not an expert. Of course the best option is for families to
help their members develop the strength and resilience to deal with life without
developing addictive behaviors. But as you are aware, in the world we live in
even, good families can be and are effected. Of course individuals should take
personal responsibility for their choices, but every individual has there own
life situations and challenges to deal with. One persons experiences can not
make them a useful judge of an others life. We all make dumb choices in
our lives, to one person a dumb choice may lead to an experience that they
learn from and decide to avoid and the same choice by another individual leads
right into addiction. Drugs are not the only thing that people are addicted to.
Porn is another one that is often talked about, but hate and bigotry and narrow
mindedness are also common addictions. The best option is probably for individuals
and families who are dealing with addictions to take advantage of any good help
that might assist them in overcoming this challenge. That can come from
extended family, community, religious, or governmental sources. We live in an
imperfect world and some of these recourses may be of greater value than others
and all of them may be able to be improved. We need to realize that addictions
can be very hard to overcome and though there are quite a few success stories
there are many that can not make it out. It is important to recognize the
efforts to help and the addict’s efforts to overcome and realize that even in good
families and good individuals who get trapped in these situations that things
do not always turn out in this life as we would choose. We are not the
final Judge. Thanks for being willing to raise our awareness of this issue.

]]> By: alcohol and drug treatment http://sutherlandinstitute.org/news/2011/05/03/fighting-addiction-the-individual-family-community-and-government/#comment-1035 alcohol and drug treatment Fri, 06 May 2011 12:08:00 +0000 http://www.sutherlandinstitute.org/news/?p=175#comment-1035 Hi,

Its really nice post guys.

Its very interesting and I liked this post.

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