A drug addicted or alcoholic loved one can commit crimes, even against their own family.
Knowing the difference between social and anti-social addiction can help you make major decisions that will affect your family and yourself.
Who do you help and how do you decide? I've put together the major questions and indicators you need to ask yourself to properly decide what to do about an addicted loved one.
Most addicts were good people.
Yet, a drug addict or alcoholic can make some pretty major mistakes.
Addicts and alcoholics can cause great harm and upset to those who love them.
Sometimes a drug addict will damage others property and commit crimes.
Regardless of the motive, these acts are wrong.
When deciding what to do with an addict who has been harming others, dealing drugs or being destructive of ones best laid plans, you have to consider several things.
Two Question Addiction Test

1. Does this person want to get better?
or
2. Do they want to do crime and are drugs making it easier to continue?

Addicts come in basically two varieties, when it comes to criminal actions.
One: those caught up in addiction and wanting to get out of their self imposed trap.
(Good person) Two: people seeing their destructive actions on others and themselves, desire to numb themselves with drugs or alcohol so as to continue to destroy.
The majority of anti-social acts are committed by the second group.
(Not Good) I'll try to work with the first group only and work valiantly to help get these people to rehab or even do at-home programs.
Group one really deserve your and my help.
Group one are good, but erring.
Reality check -- it's going to involve some energy and effort on your and their parts.
Criminal And Addicted

• The second group actually wants your efforts to help them fail.
  They quietly smile when they relapse.
  Your success in helping drug addicts or alcoholics will be in distinguishing between these two types of people.
  Turn the second group over to the police.
  
• Mistaking a person in group 2 with someone in group one will hurt you.
  Group two will steal from you again and again, put you through hell and make you feel like it is your entire fault.
  Addicts in group two are the reason interventionists insist those enabling their addictions, cease and desist immediately.
  Group two won't truly feel bad about their anti-social activities and will destroy a family's fortune.
  
• People in group two hurt everyone and will continue to hurt others.
  The people in group two are the career criminals, violent offenders and family destroyers.
  Help the police to get them out of society so they can't harm society any further.
  

How can a family member see the difference between the two? Let's focus on group one and leave group two to the police, shall we.
Addicted But Good

• People in group one hurt themselves and may make mistakes.
  They're basically good people.
  
• People caught up in addiction can commit criminal acts to pay for their addiction.
  They will feel considerable regret and usually cave in on themselves when they have to face you or their counter-survival actions.
  These small or large crimes may result in their developing a self-worthless attitude (despised).
  
• Sometimes one can mistake those in group one with those in group two.
  This can cause considerable upsets in someone who is addicted.
  Ex.
  The addicted person now feels rejected by family, worthless, like garbage, etc.
  simply because they are addicted.
  These people need help, not further rejection.
  
• If the people in this group are given an honest opportunity to recover from this hell they are trapped in, they will take that opportunity.
  Often they will need a professional interventionist to assist them to get to rehab.
  The addict can mistake themselves to be in that second group as well and therefore not want to place more burden on the family.
  
• Their main objection to rehab will be because they feel worthless for the wrongs they have done.
  These people need your help to get them moving toward recovery, while they have a moment of clarity.
  Simply, if they truly feel bad about their actions, there is some hope.
  

If an addict's or alcoholic's actions are cold and calculated, designed to hurt and harm, you're looking at anti-social motivations.
Anti-social addicts will pretend sorrow, be warned.
That's group two, not good.
Differentiating these two types of individual motivations, social and anti-social, will greatly assist you in making a very important decision.
Working tirelessly to get a good but addicted loved one to rehab will pay off if you do it right.