Substance Abuse:
Family Relationships with Addicts
By
Ashley Sellars
HUS-204
Allen Barbare
3 December 2016
Ashley Sellars
Allen Barbare
HUS-204
3 December 2016
Family Relationships with Addicts The topic I choose is Substance Abuse in this area I find Alcohol and Other Drugs Abuse and Dependence Affects Family Relationship most interested. I have lived to see this with my own eyes throughout my family while growing. It is something that has touched and changed me forever. Alcohol and substance abuse destroys families in so many ways than you may think. The “eight themes that characterize families with substance abuse dependences” (Kirst-Ashman) has really opened my eyes because I never knew about these eight characteristics …show more content…
It used to be this way since it kept them around the family. My opinion now is no, it’s not the most important thing in my family for the abuser to get enough of his substance of choice because after losing two brother and still want to hurt your family is not okay. My family has tried to get him help, and make things better on numerous occasions. But then again it seems that nothing will work. I know that an abuser can’t just say okay I’m done and never turn back it’s not that easy. It does take family, sometimes hitting rock bottom for it to open the eye of an addict, and at times it takes …show more content…
218). This one goes with theme seven once you have lost trust in the family it is hard to communicate with other family members. You feel afraid because once you start talking about a situation that you over heard or trying to put pieces together about something that may have happened. You start talking openly about the situation and someone might be scared to speak on it causing the truth may come out leading to destroying the family even more. My opinion yes this is normally what happens when everyone has had enough of it and start talking. Finally, alcohol and other drug abuse and dependence affects family relationships because “this is a problem that affects the entire family; what happens to one family member affects all others (Kirst-Ashman, p.468). I always just thought that this was only my family that was facing theses kind of circumstances in life. I would have never thought that there were eight themes of ways addict’s affects every family relationships. References
Johnson, J. L.,. Fundamentals of substance abuse practice . Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole, 2004.
Kirst-Ashman, Karen K. Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare. 5th. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016.
Perkinson, R. R. Chemical dependency counseling: A practical guide. 4th . Thousand Oaks: Sage , 2012.
Wegscheider, S. Another chance: Hope and health for the acoholic family. Palo Alto : Science Behavior Books ,
Family Relationships with Addicts
By
Ashley Sellars
HUS-204
Allen Barbare
3 December 2016
Ashley Sellars
Allen Barbare
HUS-204
3 December 2016
Family Relationships with Addicts The topic I choose is Substance Abuse in this area I find Alcohol and Other Drugs Abuse and Dependence Affects Family Relationship most interested. I have lived to see this with my own eyes throughout my family while growing. It is something that has touched and changed me forever. Alcohol and substance abuse destroys families in so many ways than you may think. The “eight themes that characterize families with substance abuse dependences” (Kirst-Ashman) has really opened my eyes because I never knew about these eight characteristics …show more content…
It used to be this way since it kept them around the family. My opinion now is no, it’s not the most important thing in my family for the abuser to get enough of his substance of choice because after losing two brother and still want to hurt your family is not okay. My family has tried to get him help, and make things better on numerous occasions. But then again it seems that nothing will work. I know that an abuser can’t just say okay I’m done and never turn back it’s not that easy. It does take family, sometimes hitting rock bottom for it to open the eye of an addict, and at times it takes …show more content…
218). This one goes with theme seven once you have lost trust in the family it is hard to communicate with other family members. You feel afraid because once you start talking about a situation that you over heard or trying to put pieces together about something that may have happened. You start talking openly about the situation and someone might be scared to speak on it causing the truth may come out leading to destroying the family even more. My opinion yes this is normally what happens when everyone has had enough of it and start talking. Finally, alcohol and other drug abuse and dependence affects family relationships because “this is a problem that affects the entire family; what happens to one family member affects all others (Kirst-Ashman, p.468). I always just thought that this was only my family that was facing theses kind of circumstances in life. I would have never thought that there were eight themes of ways addict’s affects every family relationships. References
Johnson, J. L.,. Fundamentals of substance abuse practice . Belmont, CA : Brooks/Cole, 2004.
Kirst-Ashman, Karen K. Introduction to Social Work & Social Welfare. 5th. Boston: Cengage Learning, 2016.
Perkinson, R. R. Chemical dependency counseling: A practical guide. 4th . Thousand Oaks: Sage , 2012.
Wegscheider, S. Another chance: Hope and health for the acoholic family. Palo Alto : Science Behavior Books ,