Drug addiction is scary when it lives in your home and takes
over your family. Assistance in Recovery (AiR) is a national
organization of counselors, professional intervention
specialists, and consultants that provide fast and effective
crisis management services through a proven protocol of
education, action and healing. One simple phone call to AiR will
put in place the proper resources to dissolve the crisis and put
the family or organization and the drug addicted individual on a
solid course of recovery. “Drug addiction is a result of brain
changes that, over time, get translated into behavior changes,”
says the National Institute for Drug Abuse director, Alan
Leshner. It is the “use of a drug or substance for a reason
other than which it was intended or in a manner or in quantities
other than directed. Drug and alcohol dependence is a compulsion
to take use substances to produce a desired effect or prevent
unpleasant effects when they are withheld. Risk factors for drug
and alcohol abuse include: low sel