A comprehensive guide for parents, siblings, friends, and spouses of adult addicts and alcoholics. Offering real solutions from an addiction expert and director of a recovery program which boasts 80% higher succes rates than the nat'l avergage. This manual covers how addiction impacts the entire family, common mistakes, the real reasons behind addiction, why recovery fails, what the addict is thinking, and practical solutions for lasting change. Learn: * What families do uniintentionally to keep Addiction cycle going * Why the addict keeps failing, even after rehab * How to identify & stop enabling behaviors * Strategies you can implement now that will get results * Default-mode; it's a brain thing, not a moral issue * Exact details of what the Addict thinks and feels * What trauma looks like for the whole family * What trauma looks like for the addict * How to heal both family & addict * What motivates the addict Break the endless cycle of constant rescuing, the exhaustion of the family, and the Addict's broken promises to change