#500-26, 21 minutes, 2002
Living with Addiction: A Family Disease is designed to help educators work with teens to understand that addiction is a disease they did not cause, cannot control and cannot cure. Addiction is progressive and only the addict can decide to seek treatment. This program also assures the young person that addiction does not mean your parent doesn’t love you, only that he or she is sick and has an illness with specific effects on day to day life. Finally, this program is designed to help teens understand their own risk of becoming a drug or alcohol abuser and to develop healthy coping strategies instead.