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Supporting Families Affected by Addiction: Recovery, Community, and Influence

This text discusses the crucial role families play in supporting individuals with addiction problems. It highlights the benefits of involving families in treatment, addressing family stress, and advocating for better outcomes for children within family settings. The importance of family support in prevention, harm minimization, and recovery is emphasized, alongside key messages about the challenges families face and the need for recognition and support. The text explores barriers, opportunities, and the potential of families as a valuable resource in the recovery process.

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Supporting Families Affected by Addiction: Recovery, Community, and Influence

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  1. Families, communities and recovery Vivienne Evans

  2. What is a family?

  3. What does a family affected by substance misuse look like?

  4. THE INFLUENCERS Families affected by addiction problems are important for three significant and related reasons: • Involvement of family members in the treatment of their relatives with addiction problems can enhance positive outcomes • Family members in these circumstances show symptoms of stress that merit help in their own right • Effective treatment of the parent can have positive benefits for the child • Better outcomes for children are achieved if they remain with their families

  5. What does family support mean? • Prevention and early intervention? • Harm minimisation ? • Recovery/reintegration?

  6. Why families? • Rebuilding family relationships is a key constituent of recovery • Families provide vital recovery capital • Families are well placed to help map individualised routes away from drug dependency • Families need to recover too

  7. Key messages • Families are relied upon to provide support without being adequately supported themselves • Families subsidise treatment provision • The welfare system penalises families • Families do not get support when they want to disengage with the drug user • The role of the family needs to be recognised at grassroots level, not just with policy circles • Families want more information

  8. The focus?

  9. Barriers • Delivering family support at a time of economic cutbacks • The role of the state • Outcomes • Localism • Workforce • Confidentiality • Is family support necessarily a good thing?

  10. Opportunities • Coalition’s commitment to a family friendly society • Families as a resource, not a deficit • Re-balanced treatment system; recovery • Big Society

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