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UNDERSTANDING YOUR ATTITUDES

If you are like many other people who grew up in a family with substance abuse, you may have strong feelings about alcohol and drug use. To gauge your attitudes about alcohol or drug use, ask yourself these questions:

Your experiences with your family, alcohol and other drugs

When, how much, and where did family members abuse substances?

How did their substance use make you feel?

Did you know people who drank or used drugs "socially" and then stopped?

Your own personal experiences with alcohol or other drugs

Have you ever used alcohol or other drugs?

How have these experiences made you feel?

Have the experiences matched your expectations of what they would be like?

Your personal limits for using now?

Do you drink? If so, how much?

What do you consider to be too much?

How do you feel about other forms of drug use?

How do you communicate your limits to the people you spend time with?

How do you adhere to the limits you set?

Your comfort level with other people’s drinking or drug use

How do you feel about being around people who are drinking?

How do you feel about being around people who are using other drugs?

What do you do in situations that make you uncomfortable?