[The coaching, a posture of the caregiver in addictology].

The change process in addictive behaviours can be long and cause caregivers and patients to question their competences. In this context, caregivers are invited to adopt a coaching approach. They can then use this expertise to support a partnership relationship, which encourages the sharing of power while at the same time lightening each other's "load".

[A metaphor of the nurse's work in addictology].

The mechanism of addiction can be compared to a rut in a road, towards which patients are attracted and into which they inevitably fall. The role of the nurse in addictology is to lead the patient to consider other roads, to tread a new path taking them in a more positive direction. It is on this condition that programmes based on substitution can prove effective.