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From the NY Times comes an article on the biology of addiction. The recent death of Amy Winehouse has many talking again about addiction and the underlying causes. And yet one of the single biggest drivers – parental and other family alcoholism – is completely ignored.
The NY Times is a great paper, and even they miss the boat on this. It is time for the media to acknowledge that parents impact their kids. We need to build an understanding that treating alcoholics should include treating their kids. If we can start addressing the factors now that drive the alcoholism in their kids later, then the parents and their kids will be much better off in the long term.
Dear Scott, I definitely agree with you on this. The elephant in the room in America is parental abuse of children-it’s the thing our culture refuses to directly acknowledge or talk about. I have friends who were sexually abused, and that’s even more taboo to talk about than alcoholism. So we have to hide behind closed doors and conduct our healing as a kind of parallel life to what our worklife/general society is doing. Thank you for your website and YouTube videos. It means a lot.