“Addiction is a disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you have shattered.”
-Anonymous
Substance Abusing Parents
What it means
Did you know?
About 1 in 35 children (2.1 million) lived in households with at least one parent who had a past year illicit drug use disorder..
Children having a parent with an SUD are at risk of experiencing direct effects, such as parental abuse or neglect, or indirect effects, such as fewer household resources.
samhsa.gov
Parental alcoholism and drug addiction can create poor self-image, loneliness, guilt, anxiety, feelings of helplessness, fear of abandonment and chronic depression in children.
These problems can lead to mental health problems later in life.
aaets.org/
In Popular Culture
Movies
- Moonlight
- The Blind Side
TV Shows
- Friday Night Lights (Vince)
- This is Us (Pearson family)
- Mom
Songs
- How Could You Leave Us - NF
Podcasts
- The Love Over Addiction Podcast