Reuniting with Family

 Addiction and alcoholism are often called a family disease. While the addict/alcoholic is the one with the disease, its impact on the family is usually devastating. As the family is usually devastating. As the family struggles to cope, understand, and accept what is happening to their loved one, the addict is only concerned with getting the next hit or the next drink, by whatever means including lie, cheat, steal, emotional and physical abuse, selling drugs, prostitution and crime. Family dynamics are always changed by addiction and its consequences; however, we have found that long-term recovery can have miraculous powers in healing the family unit.