Citation

Noone RJ, Reddig RL. Fam. Process 1976; 15(3): 325-332.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, Family Process Institute, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1026451

Abstract

This article, with case illustrations, attempts to demonstrate that drug-abuse behavior can be understood more clearly in the light of family loyalties and unresolved family crises than from the perspective that drug abusers are social deviates.1 Drug abuse is viewed as symptomatic, as a signal that both drug abuser and his or her family are having difficulty in getting past a particular stage in the natural unfolding life cycle of a family. Treatment of drug abuse is seen primarily as helping the family to become "unstuck," thereby freeing the individual's and family's energy for the task of self-development and growth rather than expending it to maintain rigid patterns of interaction in an attempt to prevent change.

Language: en