- Do you try to monitor someone else’s use of cocaine or other mind-altering substances?
- Have you considered calling the addict’s dealer, the authorities, or an intervention unit?
- Do you use lies to cover up for the addict’s using?
- Do you feel confused about how to handle situations relating cocaine or other mind-altering substances, or the addict’s behavior?
- Do you hope that each time you see or hear of the addict’s use, it will be the last time?
- Does the addict make seemingly honest promises that never materialize?
- Is your main concern how to get someone else to stop using cocaine or other mind-altering substances?
- Do you threaten to leave the addict if the using doesn’t stop?
- Do you feel that if the addict would stop using cocaine or other mind-altering substances, that the problem would go away?
- Do you feel that if the addict really loved you, the addict would stop using cocaine or other mind-altering substances, because you asked them to?
- Do you have money problems as a result of someone else’s use of cocaine or other mind-altering substances?
- Have you lost material possessions to support the addict’s using?
- Do you feel like your problem is unlike anyone else’s?
- Do you feel like your own life is in order and only the addict has a problem?
- Are you afraid to speak up on certain issues, for fear the addict will use more, blame you, or hurt you?
- Do you resent coming to Co-Anon Family Groups meetings because the addict will not attend Cocaine Anonymous meetings?
- Do you want to force the addict to attend Cocaine Anonymous meetings?
- Do you want to know how to deal with your son’s or daughter’s problem with cocaine or other mind-altering substances?
- Do you wait up at night or lose sleep waiting for the addict to come home?
If you answered “Yes” to four or more questions, then Co-Anon Family Groups is for you. Attend as many meetings as possible and use the Co-Anon phone numbers to find out more. You have come to the right place!
Co-Anon Family Groups World Service Organization
P.O. Box 3664
Gilbert, AZ 85299
T (480) 442-3869
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