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Who’s To Blame For Addictive Behavior? #Shorts

27 Sept 2021 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth, an addiction counselor, describes a vignette about a young client who moved in with his grandparents while struggling with addiction, then took a significant amount of money from them. In the session the client blames the grandparents for leaving money accessible despite knowing the client’s addiction. The counselor presents this as an ethical/question prompt to viewers: whose fault is it?

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As an addiction counselor, I hear about a lot of very complicated situations, and I want to know what you think about this particular situation. A while back, I had a young client who went to live with his grandparents because he was struggling with an addiction. Now, he ended up taking a lot of money from those grandparents. And when he was sitting in my office talking to me about it, he says it's their fault. He knew he had an addiction. They shouldn't have left money laying around. Now, what do you think about that? Whose fault was it?