When You Know You Need Help

The Scope of the Problem

Oftentimes, many individuals believe the problems in their lives are causing them to drink or use drugs. The reality is, their substance use is oftentimes the source of these conflicts. Contact Turning Corners today.
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When to Know You Need Help

  • When your recreational activities result in legal consequences
  • When you are becoming a victim of your own choices
  • When your substance use is beginning to create family and relationship conflicts
  • When it takes most of the day to recover from what you did the night before
  • When you cannot remember on a regular basis what you did the night before
  • When your "recreational" use is beginning to cause financial problems
  • When your use becomes your primary recreation and loss of interest in other hobbies occurs
  • When your use results in absenteeism from work and decreased work performance
  • When you have to justify your use and subsequent behaviors to family and friends.
  • When you prefer your intoxicated or high self over your sober self
  • When you are self-medicating depression, anxiety, disappointments, and other feelings with alcohol and drugs
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Do You Have a Substance Dependency?

The ‘CAGE’ is a frequently used tool to determine a substance dependency problem. Two positive responses are considered a positive test and indicate further assessment is warranted.
  • Have you ever felt you could Cut down on your substance use?
  • Have people Annoyed you by criticizing you about your substance use?
  • Have you ever felt Guilty about your substance use?
  • Have you ever had a drink or used first thing in the morning (Eye opener) to steady your nerves or get rid of a hangover?
Ewing, J.A. Detecting alcoholism: The CAGE questionnaire. JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association 252(14):1905–1907, 1984.
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We are a member of the Maryland's Addiction Professional Certification Board. Our Directors, Patricia, is a certified Co-Occurring Disorders Professional.
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