Consequences of Substance Abuse on Non-addicted Family Members and their Role in Treatment and Rehabilitation Initiatives

Abstract

Addicts aren't the only ones whose lives are altered by drug abuse. Active addiction has repercussions for many people other than the user. When a loved one struggles with substance abuse, everyone in the family feels the effects. Addiction changes the life of everyone who cares about the addict, whether they are the addict's parents, children, or spouse. Most academics and theorists now agree that families are the basic unit of society. Both healthy and unhealthy lifestyles may have their origins and flourish inside families. Numerous studies have shown its significance and effect in defining health and sickness and presenting paradigms for typical and atypical conduct. As a result, the family unit has been widely recognised as the primary and primary source of health. Ban-dura argues that, as a social species, people are best understood in the context of their interpersonal connections, starting with their families. According to popular theories in the field of family psychology, early life experiences, including those with one's own family, have a profound impact on shaping one's identity. As individuals of the same household negotiate their own situations, symptoms, and emotional senses via the interchange of a wide variety of behavioural, affective, and abnormal aberrational models, it is also the setting for the vast majority of our fears, failures, and accomplishments.