Lesson 1: Addiction is Learned - Slide 24
Why Did You Continue to Use?
- Take a moment and identify the reasons that kept you using and returning to use after stopping:
- Relief from negative emotions such as anxiety, anger or depression
- Difficult life
- Low self-confidence
- Access to new social groups and “friends”
- Your unique reasons?
- Through the sessions and material provided, you can learn positive ways to meet the needs that alcohol and drugs met in your life
Notes:
Pg. 22-23, Beck, Aaron T., Wright, Fred D., Newman, Cory F. & Liese, Bruce S. (1993). Cognitive Therapy of Substance Abuse. New York. The Guilford Press.
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