Addiction is often a vicious cycle, making it incredibly challenging for individuals to recover on their own or even seek out help. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, among people aged 12 or older in 2023 who were...
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...
Loving someone who struggles with addiction can be an emotional and challenging journey. While setting boundaries with an alcoholic may feel like punishing a loved one, it is about protecting your well-being while encouraging your loved one to seek help. Relationships can...
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,...
Addiction doesn’t just affect the individual—it ripples through the entire family, often leaving emotional, psychological, and even financial damage in its wake. Whether it’s substance abuse, alcoholism, or behavioral addictions, the impact of addiction in the family can be deeply felt by...
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...
