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How financial help can enable self-destruction

I've been giving my homeless brother money for years telling myself it's compassionate, but I found out he's using it for drugs and now I don't know if stopping the money is tough love or abandonment.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The discovery that assistance is being used harmfully creates a painful choice between continued enabling and what feels like withdrawal of love.

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