The holiday season is often a time of joy, togetherness, and celebration. However, it can also be a period filled with emotional challenges for families dealing with addiction. For many individuals, the pressure of maintaining appearances or fulfilling expectations during family gatherings...
An Overview of Family Therapy in Addiction Treatment Family therapy usually entails interventions at the family level of assessments, involvement, and approaches. There’s evidence that suggests people who have the strong support system of their family during addiction treatment have a higher...
The Importance of Setting Boundaries With an Alcoholic If your friend or loved one suffers from alcohol addiction, you want them to get help and be well. Unfortunately, their sobriety is entirely up to them, no matter how badly you can see...
What Does it Mean to Enable Addiction? It can be tough to watch a loved one struggle with addiction, whether that’s an addiction to alcohol, drugs, or other substances. But what makes it even harder is enabling our loved ones with an...
The Role Of Family In Addiction Recovery It is not surprising that addiction affects more than just the substance-abusing or drug-addicted individual. Drugs and alcohol can easily damage multiple areas of a person’s life. Drug abuse often impacts someone’s finances, career, education,...
How Do You Care For Yourself if a Friend or Family Member Is Addicted? Addiction is a disease that impacts more than the individual addict; it also affects you as an addict’s loved one. While you may be focused on caring for...
What Is Codependency? Codependency is an emotional and behavioral condition that affects an individual’s ability to have healthy, mutually satisfying relationships, especially in relationships with an addicted partner. A codependent relationship is when one partner has extreme emotional or physical needs, and...
Addiction Is a Family Disease and Affects Those Closest to the Individual As a graduate of the treatment programs at WhiteSands Alcohol and Drug Rehab in Orlando, Jacqueline cannot thank the therapists, counselors, and clinicians enough for her success in recovery. “I...
The Best Ways to Help an Addict When a family member becomes addicted to alcohol or drugs, every other person in the family often suffers alongside the addict. Those other family members may not be using drugs or abusing alcohol themselves, but...
Can Drug Rehab Be Forced? Many families ask this question: can you force rehab? There is a fine line between forcing someone into rehab and putting pressure on them to seek help through motivation and encouragement. Learning how to empower someone who...
