When Mom or Dad is addicted to drugs, the situation can be especially hard for their children. It's not common for children of drug addicts to feel alone, unsure what to do, and scared that others may find out about their parent's drug use. Whether you're a kid or an adult, learning how to live with a drug-addicted ... Read More
Help For Loved Ones
When your loved one begins exhibiting signs of substance abuse or increasing mental health issues it can leave you feeling helpless and desperate. These feelings are not uncommon and we’ve seen them all as we’ve treated thousands of patients and their families. The articles found here focus on tips and advice on supporting a loved one who is struggling with a disorder or has begun treatment and needs support.
A Guide for When Mom or Dad Is Addicted to Drugs
Find Out How Your Attachment Style Is Affecting Your Relationships
One of the first relationships you ever have is with your parents. As a child, you typically learn a lot from them. And without even realizing it, you pick up an attachment style from your interactions with them that can later impact how you behave in relationships as an adult. Let's examine how a person's attachment ... Read More
The Role of Family in Supporting Recovery
Never underestimate the role of family in supporting a loved one’s recovery from addiction. That’s the takeaway of a large body of research that helps to explain why high-quality rehab providers will, whenever possible, involve family in the treatment process. But, just what is the nature of healthy participation in a ... Read More
Talking to Your Kids About Drugs
Kids are energetic bundles of joy that make us laugh, cry, and melt our hearts with their unwavering innocence and unfiltered opinions of life. As our children grow, they gain more and more independence with each passing year - even at an early age. Like little sponges, our children regurgitate everything they learn ... Read More
The Link Between Addiction and Family Stress, According to an Expert
Families in the U.S. have been facing high levels of chronic stress for a while now, and, their exposure to acute stressors may have risen also recently, thanks to a dramatic rise in domestic violence. Coinciding with the era of restrictions on travel and social distancing, experts have recorded a 20 percent increase ... Read More
How Helicopter Parenting Negatively Affects Recovery
As a parent, there is nothing more important than protecting your children. After all, you brought them into the world, taught them the fundamentals of life and supported their development, from first steps to high school graduation and beyond. However, at some point in life, children will begin to make their own ... Read More
The Role of Fathers in Breaking the Cycle of Emotional Unavailability
During treatment for opiate addiction, Megan talked a lot with her counselor about her family of origin, childhood, and, in particular, her father's aloofness. As a child, Megan always blamed herself for her inability to "connect" with her father Sam. Megan's mother lavished affection and attention on her but Sam ... Read More
Teenage Addiction – How to Help Your Teen Battling Drug Use
A Guide For Families Looking To Help Their Addicted Teenagers Life can be so beautiful and amazing in many ways, but it also has a tendency to throw out a lot of hardship, grief, and immense challenges to overcome. Existence on Earth isn’t exactly perfect, and there are times when things are so tough that they can’t ... Read More