Lesson 4: Addiction And Relationships - Slide  9

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Assess The Groups You Hang Out With

  • Hard drinkers associate with other hard drinkers
  • Drug users associate with drug users
  • The American Berkeley Alcohol Research Group tracked drinking problems for 20 years and found:
  • The best way to predict whether you have a drinking problem is to identify the number of people in the group who you drink with, that have drinking problems
Notes:

Pg. 54-56, “The Truth About Addictions and Recovery,” Stanton Peele, Ph.D. & Archie Brodsky, Simon &Schuster (publisher) New York, 1991

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