Opioid Addiction Affects Everyone in the Family

When struggling with addiction, many view the abusing person as the only one affected. While considering the devastating effects on the user, many may not take into consideration how others are directly involved; addiction affects the family. Spouses, children, and parents who witness a loved one struggling with addiction experience emotional damage, as well as financial, legal, medical, and other consequences.

The biological disease of substance-use disorder can manifest in maladaptive behavior that can be seen as deliberatively harmful toward the family. The family needs to know that the behavior is being driven by the disease and not the person.

Tiger Resilience provides integrated, self-serve, practical addiction educational programs that are specifically focused on the family members, not the addicted person.