A community is a gathering of families, a society is a clustering of communities, so it makes sense for us to develop a deliberate collaboration of our community around the families that are dealing with addictions in their family unit.

We are all effected by this disease, no one gets our free from this experience. By helping the family to get their loved one into treatment and then sustain life long recovery is the goal for all of us.

To start the needed steps towards uniting the family in the journey of Substance Use Disorder there is value when we look at the past stress and trauma. This can be done by the family when ready to work together and in a safe place find the unidentified traumas from past experience in deal with substance use disease in the family. The word T.R.U.S.T. stands for Together, Recognizing, Unidentified Stress and trauma.

Now that we have a model we need to understand how it works. The family is an intrical part to the works of this disease in its management. You are more than a voice, you become a participant and changes will be required from each member in the family.

Substance use disorders is a disease of the brain that impacted everyone in the family. Therefore, it makes sense to create a model that addresses this disease at the family level.

A family disease management model is similar to the patient disease management model only it is applied to all of the family as a family unit, a family system with a family dynamic and individual family members that make up this family. Learn how a new design in delivery systems is being used to address the Families Chronic Disease of Substance Use Disorders

No man is an island. And no family should try to go through this alone. Learn how to access services before you need them. Take the time to create your plan in how each service will be brought forward at the time you will need them by design created by you.

The fact is a family dealing with substance use disease is going to be impacted, each member in the family will experience this impact and we know what the issues are going to look like. You can prepare for each issue in advance by taking the Family Solution Finder Learning Series found on FamiliesImpactedbyOpioids.com

It is very, very possible that members in your family are enabling the addict in their journey. This needs to stop and each member of the family is accountable to make the necessary changes so their enableing of the person is not allowed to continue. Learn about the ten types of enabling. Give them a name, discuss them as a family, help each other to make a change.

Yes, change is a constant happening in the famlly when dealing with substance abuse. But do you know how changes come about. Its been studied and the pattern is know so predictable we can use a model to motivate others through their 5 stages of change, Learn about each stage and the motivation interviewing that can facilitate these stages.