FLOW HIJACKED · FOR FAMILY & LOVED ONES

Someone I love is struggling with addiction.

You do not have to choose between rescuing the person and abandoning them. Begin with what you can observe, check danger, offer one step and protect your own functioning too.

Understanding is not consent to danger or harm. Love does not make you the whole treatment system. This resource does not replace assessment, care or emergency services.

THE FIRST MINUTE

Four distinctions before the next conversation.

The aim is not to control another person. It is to reduce danger, speak in language that can land and know what you are willing to do—and what you are not.

Say what you can observe

Name the change without diagnosing motive: missed work, intoxication, disappearing, money, sleep or a broken agreement.

Check immediate danger

Overdose, dangerous withdrawal, violence, severe confusion or suicide risk need direct human and emergency help—not a better conversation.

Make one concrete invitation

Offer one reachable action: call together, get assessed, attend one meeting or speak with one agreed person.

Keep one enforceable boundary

A boundary states what you will do to protect safety and functioning. It is not a threat you cannot carry out.

IF DANGER IS PRESENT NOW

Do not stay with an internet page. Move to human support routes or the appropriate emergency service.

CHOOSE BY NEED

Not every family needs the same page.

01Conversation map

How to help someone with alcohol addiction

A detailed alcohol-focused guide to observation, invitation, boundaries and supporter care. The principles may travel; medical risks do not.

Open route ↗02Find the right path

Recovery Map for loved ones

Choose the situation—active use, lapse, treatment, ordinary life or your own exhaustion—without needing the right search words.

Open route ↗03Human support

Find people and services

Reach Israeli emergency, crisis, addiction, family and mental-health routes. A directory cannot complete the handoff; keep one person connected.

Open route ↗04Understand the science

What addiction does to the brain

A visual systems explanation across learning, stress, relief, salience, habit and control—without turning the person into a broken brain.

Open route ↗

Different substances, people and medical risks require different decisions. General family guidance cannot determine whether home withdrawal is safe, whether admission is needed or which treatment fits.

KEEP OR SHARE

One precise resource for one conversation.

Share this page as a general family entrance, or use the distribution kit to choose the exact guide, QR code and copy for a particular group.

Open the family sharing kit ↗Download sharing card ↓