Don’t want your teen to drink, smoke or do drugs? Well, there's no easy one answer, but one easy step in the right direction is as simple as sitting down at the dinner table together, as a family, 5 or more times a week.

You never need to let a loved one hit rock bottom before intervening - in fact, if you do wait that long, the odds of successful treatment are lower

Addiction hijacks the mind, and then confirmation bias boots free will right out the door.

It can drive a family crazy trying to understand "why they won't stop...why they can't see what they're doing to themselves..." when surely things like losing a job or a wife are pretty clear indicators of a problem.

Understand confirmation bias and get a sneaky look inside an alcoholic mind - and understand why they never seem to see the problem.

We are told, berated even, to stop our enabling behaviors when living and dealing with a still using alcoholic or drug addict. It's hard to do, but it all makes sense, and we for the most part can accept the need for it. Some of us even do it - some of us do too much.

While I'm sure that many take to the booze or the drugs as a coping mechanism in reaction to horrible traumas of childhood...I gotta wonder if there aren't more of us that are just like me. People that just really really liked to get high and get drunk.