Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Introduction

For this paper, our focus and concentration revolves around the changes and the challenges that are being faced and experienced by people that are drug or alcohol addicts, but also that which make way for providing the details as to what issues and problems have been felt and experienced by these people in recent times.

Discuss some of the ways family members might try to maintain equilibrium in a family with a drug-dependent member.

Drug and alcohol addiction has been an issue of serious problem and situation that has been felt and experienced over the passage of time. In the times that we live in, it becomes evident that regardless of the changes and the challenges that have been felt and experienced in the long-run.

One of the most recent and the most problematic issues that have been felt and experienced over the passage of time in terms of making progress in the long-run, the most important aspect is the issue of relationship and rapport that is maintained with people. In the times of today, maintaining close ties with family members experiencing problems with drug or alcohol addiction require help and assistance altogether (Alcoholic Anonymous, 2013).

Through proper relationship and rapport, family members would then be able to provide for the creation and the establishment of a strong and effective recovery for drug dependent family members, and also provide them the platform where their problems or situations would then be notified and solved through the support that is being provided for the proper functioning of the family.

The second most important aspect implies the degree of communication that exists among family members. The reason why people generally tend to experience delays and hindered recovery on the part of alcohol or drug addicts shows restricted behavior patterns, limiting the ability of the patient to recover and also binding the family members to maintain close ties with the addict.

One last factor that could be felt and experienced over the passage of time is the lack of knowledge regarding the condition of the addict. While sympathies and consent are factors that would play a notorious role in the world today, it is required for family members to understand and comprehend the mechanisms, movements, words and expressions and thereby respond as per the measures of the treatment, which would not only provide evidence for the family members to respond to and also lay precautionary measures, in case of chronic conditions and situations.

Consider the construct of co-dependency and discuss the attractive features and limitations for family members

Co-dependency symbolizes a condition, a syndrome where a person or people working together a group - family or otherwise - are being consumed and undertaken because of a pathological problem experienced by one member in the family.

The construct of co-dependency relates and regards to the phenomenon where the needs of others supersede the needs and wants of a sane person altogether. All those individuals that have drug addict members in their family, as a benefit, ...