How Do Drugs & Alcohol Affect Families?
According to the Betty Ford Center, a national study on drug use and abuse in 2004 showed that 8.5 million Americans age 12 years and older were addicted to alcohol and another 5 million were addicted to another drug. That is far more than the current population of New York City, the nation’s largest city. With so many people facing addiction, imagine three or four times that many people who are affected by the addict as a member of the immediate family. There are numerous ways drug and alcohol abuse can affect a family.
