Family Addiction Research Paper
Addiction is a family disease because, 1”As written in Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition (2002), ‘the family of an alcoholic longs for the return of happiness and security, years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic. The entire family is, to some extent, Ill.’ It is a separation from God that leads to all things negative. By blocking ourselves from God’s divine guidance through our active addiction, we are also blocking those around us from receiving an outward pouring of God’s love through us and into them.” Because addiction is a progressive disease that affects all aspects of one’s life, work, education, children, health, finances, spirituality, relationships, psychological well being,