Addiction and Family: The Ultimate Guide on Addiction & Your Family
Learn about Addiction and How it Affects Your Family Having an addict in the family is a challenge for everyone involved. The addict lives a life of loneliness, isolation, and uncertainty with the ever-present threat of arrest, overdose, and death. And for the family members, life is uncertain as well, with midnight phone calls, pleas […]
The Impact of Substance Abuse: 7 Ways Addiction Affects the Family
How substance abuse and alcoholism hurt the ones you love Addiction hurts the entire family, from younger siblings to parents who cannot sleep at night. We compiled a list of the top things we observed with our clients and families. 1. Other Siblings Are Ignored Brothers and sisters of addicts in families affected by drugs […]
Talking to Family and Friends About Your Recovery
When we are in pain, it can be difficult to find the right words to reflect how we feel. It can be especially tricky when we have suffered from a relapse along our mental health journey, but communication is the bridge between the whole of humanity. We can’t expect people to assume how we feel […]
