Family Help:Nar-Anon

Nar-Anon is an organization for family members of drug addicts. The following is a list of questions which can help you determine if you may benefit from the support of Nar-Anon:

A questionnaire for relatives and friends:

1. Do you find yourself making excuses, lying, or covering up for someone?
2. Do you have a reason not to trust this person?
3. Is it becoming difficult for you to believe his/her explanations?
4. Do you lie awake worrying about this person?
5. If it is your child, is he or she missing school often without your knowledge?
6. If it is your spouse, is he or she missing work and leaving the bills to pile up?
7. Are your savings mysteriously disappearing?
8. Are these unanswered questions causing hostility and undermining your relationship?
9. Are you asking yourself “What’s wrong?” and “Is it my fault?”
10. Are normal family disagreements becoming hostile and violent?
11. Are your suspicions turning you into a detective and are you afraid of what you might find?
12. Are you canceling your social functions with vague excuses?
13. Are you becoming increasingly reluctant to invite friends to your home?
14. Is concern for this person causing you headaches, a knotty stomach, and extreme anxiety?
15. Is this person easily irritated by minute matters? Does your whole life seem a nightmare?
16. Are you unable to discuss the situation with friends or relatives because of embarrassment?
17. Are you frustrated by ineffective attempts to control the situation?
18. Do you over compensate and try not to make waves?
19. Do you keep trying to make things better and nothing helps?
20. Are the life style and friends of this person changing? Do you ever think they may be using drugs?

If you have answered YES to four or more of these questions, NAR-ANON may help you find the answers you are looking for.

Please visit their website at: http://nar-anon.org/index.html for more information on how Nar-Anon can help you!