Have drugs or alcohol become a problem for you or your family?
Our caring team of mental health professionals with special training in substance abuse and addiction provide family centered outpatient individual and group treatment, prevention services, and case management. Special attention is given to the impact of addiction on children.
Substance abuse and addiction affects everyone in the family.
Facing the possibility of alcoholism or other drug abuse in yourself or someone you love can be extremely difficult. The negative consequences of drug and alcohol abuse can affect all aspects of life, damaging physical health, job functioning, relationships, and emotional well-being. Family members often hide or deny the impact, or become physically and emotionally drained.
However, once the problem is acknowledged, positive changes can begin to occur. Appropriate intervention lessens stress and helps everyone involved find healthier options to improve their lives.
Call for help at 415-491-5700 if you:
*Use drugs or alcohol to calm your nerves, forget your worries, or reduce depression
* Lose interest in food
* Lie or try to hide your drinking and/or drug use
* Drink alone more often
* Hurt yourself or someone else while using drugs or alcohol
* Were drunk more than three times last year
* Need more alcohol to get "high"
* Feel irritable, resentful, or unreasonable when you are not using drugs or alcohol
* Have medical, social, or financial problems caused by drugs or alcohol.
HELPFUL TIPS:
A PARENT'S CHECKLISTIt is not always easy to find out if your child is abusing alcohol and other drugs. Having some of the signs on this list may just be normal behavior, but having many of them is not considered normal and you should seek help for your child and your family.
Fatigue, listlessness, apathy, depression, sullen behavior.
