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Does Bribing Someone Out Of Recovery Work? #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment

6 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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This content was created by Amber Hollingsworth. This content was uploaded by Amber Hollingsworth. This is a YouTube video titled "Does Bribing Someone Out Of Recovery Work? #recoveryjourney #addictionrecovery #addictiontreatment" (uploaded 2025-06-06). The excerpt is a spoken segment by Amber Hollingsworth offering advice about supporting people in addiction recovery: she argues against using bribes or written contracts/checklists to force compliance (e.g., conditional payments or mandated meeting counts), noting that such tactics often produce checkbox compliance rather than true recovery.

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I don't want you to try to bribe a person into certain steps like that. And I don't want you to create a contract with a person to checkboxes, because what I call it is checkboxes. Maybe it's like, well, if you're going to live in this house, you're going to have to do 90 meetings in 90 days, or I will pay your car payment as long as you're going to your counseling appointments. Because it normally doesn't work, right? And even if they're still doing it, sometimes they're just checking a box to get whatever the thing is out of you or to be compliant with the plan or whatever. But that doesn't mean recovery's happening. So if you're going to make agreements with someone who's struggling, I really don't ever suggest a contract, like a written contract or anything.