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How to Help an Alcoholic Parent

How to Help an Alcoholic Parent

Alcohol is available legally, but it can lead to serious substance abuse issues. Alcohol addiction interferes with a person’s work, friendships, and family life. Alcohol abuse inevitably also impacts a person’s relationships with their loved ones, including their children. Addiction is a mental disorder that takes over a person’s life. When the need to drink…

How to Choose a Rehab Facility for Your Loved One
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How to Choose a Rehab Facility for Your Loved One

Watching someone you love suffering from an addiction can be painful, especially if you feel helpless. Addiction can have catastrophic consequences for an individual’s life without effective treatment. Fortunately, with the right treatment at the right rehab centers, your loved one can recover from their alcohol or drug use and continue a happy and healthy…

What Is Family Therapy and How Can Families, Addicts, and Alcoholics Benefit from It?
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What Is Family Therapy and How Can Families, Addicts, and Alcoholics Benefit from It?

What is Family Therapy? Family therapy is a form of group coaching where family members struggling to relate with each other sit down to discuss their problems with licensed therapists and psychologically trained experts in order to improve their personal relationships and individual lives together. Family therapy is different from individual therapy not because individual…

Teen Intervention

Teen Intervention

Substance misuse interventions are never an easy process, and organizing an intervention for a teenager brings significant challenges. It is never easy to see your child in distress, so accepting that they are misusing substances can be a devastating but necessary first step. The good news is a professional interventionist can help you approach the…

What Is an Intervention?

What Is an Intervention?

When we think of substance use disorders, we tend to focus on the individual living with the disorder, how it affects them, and the negative consequences caused to their lives. But addiction affects more people than we may think. If a loved one or family member is actively engaging in problematic substance abuse, the negative…

Things You Need to Know Before Planning Intervention With Family Member
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Things You Need to Know Before Planning Intervention With Family Member

It is a painful and difficult experience to watch a family member suffer from an addiction. The disease can cause changes within the brain that alter an individual’s behaviors and actions. This means that individuals often cannot realize and accept that they are living with a problem. You want to offer support and help but…

The Effects of Alcoholism on Family

The Effects of Alcoholism on Family

Alcoholism, also known as alcohol addiction or alcohol use disorder, can seriously harm an individual’s mental and physical health, social life, and work. However, the impact of addiction is felt much more widely, beyond just the person drinking. As anyone living with a family member who struggles with alcohol abuse will know, alcohol addiction affects…