The Betty Ford Children’s Program serves such a richly diverse group
of families hurt by alcoholism and other drug addiction. Many of our
courageous children live in homes where that cunning, powerful and
baffling disease is still active. Others come from families where their
loved one is...
A long-held tenet in the treatment and recovery worlds is that alcoholism and other drug addictions are a family disease. Everyone in the family, including children, gets hurt by this cunning, powerful, and baffling illness. All too often it becomes a family legacy that gets passed from generation...