Lesson 4: Addiction And Relationships - Slide 9
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