Addiction's Effect on the Family, Friends & Employers.

Prolonged abuse of drugs and/or alcohol will deteriorate a person’s physical health, impair his or her mental functioning and damage the spirit. But how will these adverse effects impact the addict’s immediate family? Every single person in an addict’s immediate family (and at times extended family) is affected in some way by the individual’s substance abuse. Addiction impacts a family’s finances, physical health and psychological well being.  Each addict’s situation is different, which means that each family’s situation is unique. This makes it impossible to assign a universal causal relationship between substance abuse and family functioning. In most families, the impact of addiction is overwhelmingly negative, with few exceptions. In this episode Dog and Squid Discuss their experience and provide loved ones of addicts some comfort knowing how they can cope. There are many resources for family to get help and understand the addict's battles with addiction, alcoholism and mental health.

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