Chemical Brain Syndrome is a very contagious disease. It is very difficult to believe that someone taking valium and binge drinking or abusing crystal meth is actually the carrier of an infectious disease with side effects that spread like a cancer to EVERY OTHER MEMBER of the family. This means it affects parents, spouses, sisters, brothers and many times even extended members of a family.

Parents wake up one day to find the child that once they thought they had full control over is now a teenager, doing the teenager thing of struggling to be an independent young adult while still in the control and confines of house, home and parents. When these already difficult family dynamics are further stressed with alcohol and chemical abuse, the family unit stretches to its limits. Arguments with the young person ensue and husband and wife teams are trying to blame young Joey’s chemical dependency on dad’s drinking or mom not staying home enough.

Parents will learn to stop blaming young Joey’s decision to use drugs on themselves as they seek help from the chemical dependency experts. Lifeway’s professional counselors and facilitators will support Joey, and all of the family, including the siblings. With the proper treatment, Joey will learn to take ownership for his actions and regain emotional responsibility. Parents, it is imperative that you get your child the recovery assistance he or she needs immediately and get support for your family because you are going to need it.

The Lifeway program is the help you need and your expert in recovery. The problems that you are experiencing we have seen hundreds of times over. Each case is still significantly different than the other and must be handled accordingly, but there is no such thing as dirty laundry at Lifeway……we all have dirty laundry……and there is no time for denial as things will only get worse until you get the help that is needed for your family.

We all have either been a Joey or have a Joey. Parents have children that abuse drugs and alcohol and there are some parents that also seek help along with their young person in still another dynamic of addiction. Again, this is the place to go for individual and family recovery and you are not alone in your struggles.