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Study Examines Changing Trends in Parental Influence of Teen Substance Use
The parental influence on a teen’s likelihood of engaging in risky behavior such as alcohol and drug use is significant. In a recent study, “Four Generations Overcoming Addiction,” produced by a Minnesota-based treatment center, nearly half of the parents interviewed admit to using alcohol or drugs as a teenager to get drunk or high.
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Single Fathers: How Substance Abuse Perpetuates the Stereotype of Deadbeat Dads
By LeAnne Bagnall
Too often, the media relays images of today’s American father in a rather dishonorable, scornful, and offensive light, which may seem out of tune with a customarily prideful and patriotically minded nation. In the news, we hear of irresponsible dads who are absent from the picture, unwilling to support their families, and who choose to carouse in their drunken revelry instead of behaving like a good father should.
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Effects of Alcohol Abuse on the Family
Alcohol abuse is a serious enough problem for the individual who has it. But the effects of alcohol abuse extend beyond the individual to the entire family, often with extremely damaging consequences.
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Drug Addiction: Family Risk Factors
Whether you live on a cozy cul-de-sac in Connecticut, in a farming community in Iowa, on the beach at Malibu or in one of our nation’s inner-cities, it is highly probable that you know a family impacted by drug addiction. Perhaps that family is yours. Addiction knows no boundaries; it crosses every socio-economic line, does not spare those who are highly intelligent or those that come from a “good family”. In fact, drug addiction is an equal-opportunity destroyer.
The Addiction Primer
Everything you need to know to help a loved one struggling with addiction, from the writers and editors of Everything Addiction.
