6. Family Members and Their Roles

All family units become affected when one of its members develops a substance use disorder. Family dynamics, the type of family structure, if a family is 'open' or 'closed' more in nature, all factor in to how the family functions during active addiction as well as during early recovery. This family-based episode, the first of several, will explain different types of family dynamics as well as the different roles that family members may assume while one member is affected by the disease of ad...