This is a booklet (only 55 pages) which will never go over well with those that feel sorry for the drug addict and cannot appreciate nor recognize that the real victims are his parents and or loved ones seeing him going downhill. If so, I respect your views and I hope it works for you but don't bother reading further. You will not like the contents. For the rest of you, I wrote this briefing specifically for you that are suspicious that your teenager is on drugs. Or your husband or whatever family member or friend or co-worker and you care enough to want to help. We find enormous money being spent on the drug addict but not the other and very real victims, the parents and loved ones, people that are wrongly blamed, mostly, for the addict's problems. Note that this is not an academic work and does not claim to be one in any way, shape or form. I don't have the skills to write medical advice as my degrees are in law and law enforcement. However, it is based on many years in law enforcement and legal experience where I discovered the pattern, the drug addict pattern, which every drug addict follows. Once you know the pattern and it is never wrong, you can assist but you also need to know what the law says about your rights as a parent or family member or friend. This is what "The Drug Addict Pattern" is about, the known pattern and the law surrounding drug abuse from the parents or loved ones' view. Right at the start, I want to say the word "drug abuse" is a misnomer in the eyes of the law. Using illegal drugs is a crime whether you abuse them or not. Any form of use, small or large, will lead to trouble with the law and may ruin your life. Thus, I use the word in the normal sense of meaning "to use illegal drugs illegally."I wish drug addiction in a family not on my worst enemy, it is that horrible. Drug addiction destroys the one thing which should always be sacred and that is the family unit. So, whilst I will not become spiritual on the subject I do feel dark forces at work here. The first shocker in this booklet or as I prefer to say, "an unconventional approach" is that you will not find any sympathy whatsoever for the drug addict or the drug user or junkie. Call the creature what you will for they have many names, all of which are designed to hide the fact or minimize the fact that he is a drug user by choice. The truth is that he is already dead in my eyes and I will explain in the booklet why I say so. I realise these are harsh words and this does not mean rejection and condemnation at all. As we go along the meaning will become clear to you, but you need to understand that a drug addict has no qualms in lying to get what he wants, which is money for the next fix. He will steal, he will abuse, he will fake illnesses and he will play on your conscience because he cannot help himself when like that. He is not the same child, husband or loved one you knew before, that one died and must be found again, saved. And unless he is willing to help himself, no amount of therapy will work, end of story. He cannot be "shocked" into understanding he should stop since he already knows that, and yet he carries on. The questions we answer here is what now? What rights do you have to search his room? To search his body? His laptop? To subject him to drug tests? What do you do with the drugs if found? Should you always call the police? What about blackmail from his dealer? What are the signs, the pattern? How does he change from the lovable child or loved one to an addict? The role his friends play? What do you do? There comes a time when you have to face facts, look at history and learn what worked in the past and may work now. If you want the truth to protect yourself and your loved ones, read what is written here. The contents, different as it is to other such books, assisted thousands across the world in a positive way.