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Leveraging Someone Into Treatment

26 Apr 2024 · 0 min

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Excerpt from a YouTube video by Amber Hollingsworth about leveraging people into substance-use treatment. The speaker argues that younger users lose safety nets faster and therefore become non-functional more quickly, which can make it easier to leverage them into treatment; by contrast, leveraging adult partners (e.g., a spouse) is harder because they share responsibilities like co-owning a home.

They lose those safety nets so that unmanageability becomes faster than for an adult who's in charge of the safety nets. Exactly. Yeah. So the younger the person is when they use, the faster they're going to be non functional. I 100% agree with that. And therefore the faster we can leverage them into treatment. Right. Super hard to leverage your husband or your wife into treatment because they are probably co own the home.