Receptive traits

There is some professional disagreement over the concept of an "addictive personality" (a constellation of personality traits that may predispose people to become addicted) and, if valid, over whether these traits are cause or consequence of the problem. Without entering this debate, it seems that young people who bring into counseling harmful involvement with substances often present some of the following receptive traits. 

Should the receptive traits mentioned above develop (as some of them often do with the onset of adolescence), parents may want to encourage affirmative traits, which are their counterparts. 

Encourage development of affirmative traits that are opposite to those receptive traits commonly associated with problem use... 

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