Six Signs That Your Partner is an Addict

I knew that he smoked marijuana on a daily basis. And the hash, when he could get his hands on him. I did not know the pot, I did not grow up around it and my friends do not use it. I thought it was just some sort of relaxation tool, which he used after a hard day, you know, like someone with a glass of wine or a cocktail to relax. And when he ceased to work every day because he lost his job, I did not notice that he was smoking earlier and earlier every day (mostly because I was at work I). When I returned home from work, we would have a cocktail in the preparation of dinner and discuss the days sightseeing. Sometimes one drink became two.

Once, after my parents come from Florida, he told me that my mother was a very strong painkiller. I talked to my mom about it, it was something she was at my dad, "just in case", he just major surgery. Mom wanted to know how my husband knew that she had all these pills in her purse. I kind of cocked his head to one side, which is 1 too, and when I asked him, he never explained why he was in a bag mothers. But he admitted to take a couple of pills. I still never thought that something strange is happening. I guess I do not want

My mother died the next year and our family doctor prescribed lorazepam as my father, who came to visit for some time, and for me. I did not want to take drugs that make me feel insane, so I do not take it, but I noticed that the contents of the bottle all disappears. Much later I discovered that he was not just taking pills, but it also takes a bottle to have a prescription refilled in accordance with the instructions of your doctor.

Somewhere along the way, he started with back problems. This includes visits to several doctors, where we lived, but also to our vacation home. When I found a recipe for hundreds of bottles of oxycodone (OxyContin, or oxygen, or for short), I was not worried - he told me that he needed it for back pain. That was before oxygen became known as drug addict by choice - to Rush Limbaugh fiasco.

He acts "weird" for some time, and one night he called me from the bar, and said that he drank too much. He wanted me to come pick him up. When I arrived at the bar, he was a foot massage lady sitting at the bar, then he smiled at me, so I stayed at the other end of the bar, trying not to pay attention to his woeful ignorance. Finally, he staggered over to me and asked me to drive him home. He slurred nonsense all the way home, and when we came out of the car, he fell on the roadway. He settled down to the door, where he had a hard time even standing. He can not control the door handle, so I reached around him and opened the door for him.

He grabbed the door frame with both hands and feet back to me if he was not so drunk and high, he probably would have done more harm to me exactly how he landed three blows on the legs and groin area. He called this treatment Waylon Jennings. Who knows what he meant. I knew that he was still there, there was no point in trying to talk to him at all. I decided to leave it until morning. I slept little that I could sleep in the living room. I got up very early in the morning, reflecting on the events before, and realized that I was in very deep doo-doo.

He claimed that he did not remember, but he excused himself with blood, and swore that he would never be repeated. He bought me a pair of earrings.

Mood Swings

Living with an addict, like living on the edge of the rice field, you know, those terraced fields? Insanity increases and intensifies the violence, and then leveling off, and then without warning or provocation, everything starts to grow up the mountainside from Crazy again. Drug addicts seem to thrive on the "edge", the emotional roller coaster seems to provide the adrenaline rush of what they love, the addict will crash and burn within a few days until they make mental preparations to build it again. This is a sick and twisted way of life for all that's involved. If the crash and burn stage, they seem to be under anesthesia, however, there are a lot of irrational thinking going on inside.

Memory Blackouts

Addicts do not always have the memories of their actions. I do not know if it's convenient, that they forget or they do not really remember. But I know that after each incident, there is a deterioration of confidence. Since then, every time you see your drink addict or ingest drugs, you will watch like a hawk to see if "that look" going on behind them. This is a place of empowerment for the addict and the place of fear for the victims.

Increased tolerance

Drug addicts do not just wake up one morning and decided to be dependent, he glides slowly and usually addict does not even recognize the growing behavior in itself. It begins with a simple cocktail or a joint on the weekend, a few cocktails and / or joints. Drinking / smoking before Friday night is drinking / smoking until Saturday evening, and then on Sunday. Tolerance level rises so use up too much! If you live with someone you suspect is a drug addict, watch for increasing tolerance.

Secretive behavior

Addicts become secretive in general. They do not want you to overhear their calls. They escape from the center of activity, inexplicably. Addicts will tighten its range of activities that do not participate in activities that once enjoyed a drug addict, that when you find them dipping into their hidden stash.

Mixing drugs

Alcohol is so widely recognized that no one questioned the person cocktail party, but the addict knows that alcohol will enhance the effect of treatment. When drug "prescribed" medication, have a tendency to look the other way, at least, is that the addict will try to convince you to do. Addicts will protect (or perhaps prohibit) the use of drugs. Drug addicts in an attempt to experiment and to intensify, will quite often use alcohol and pain medications together. These mixtures can be fatal.

Denial and blame

Addicts also extreme fantasies. Addicts do not want to take responsibility for their actions. She is guilty, "because someone (who) are the reason for drug addicts were forced to take drugs. Always someone else's fault. The ensuing conflict and drama caused by drug actions and behavior will be the fault of someone else according to the addict . The blame goes beyond the family, the addict will blame the boss or employees losing their jobs.

Living with an addict never an easy way. Even through (and after) the rehabilitation, drug addiction lifelong battle. If you suspect that your partner is fighting drug addiction, try to seek professional help.