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The Beatles' song I get along with a little help from my friends, how to tell if your
partner has a drug addiction? This is Doctor Paul, author of Boomer Girls: A Boomer Woman's
Guide to Men and Dating and host of Ask Doctor Paul. The Beatles song I get along with a
little help from my friends referred to drugs. Now, how do you tell if your partner has a
drug addiction? It doesn't have to be illegal drugs. They can be prescription drugs. It
can be illegal drugs. It can be a drug of choice that may be sort of legal like it's
on a special list of legal drugs. You probably won't know from six to nine months. People
who have these addictions are very, very good at hiding them. Please believe this, I've
had four people call my show, both men and woman, who would tell me, I never had a clue
until eight months, ten months, a year, over a year into the relationship. I was shocked.
And I found out by accident. One found out believe it or not by finding pills that were
in an aspirin bottle, she almost took them. Turned out that they weren't aspirin at all,
but the bottle said they were. That person was taking this medication on and on and on.
So you won't know. It's not an easy thing to find out. If you once face the issue and
there's no way to back out on that person's part, the addicted person's part, go to counseling
if this person's important to you and this relationship is important to you. You will
not beat it otherwise. Please believe that, no amount of being co-dependent or having
understanding is going to make it happen. Trust me on this one. This is Doctor Paul.
May your fantasies of today be your realities of tomorrow.