Lisa R. is a child of an alcoholic. She grew up in a nice home with a loving family who seemed to have everything. Inside her house there was a very different story that her family kept from friends and the community. Lisa’s mother was an alcoholic who drank every single day and eventually died from liver disease when Lisa was just 22 years old. Now, at age 35, Lisa is in recovery from the very same disease.
Almost one-fourth of children in the United States are exposed to alcohol abuse or dependence in their families before the age of 18.i Yet many alcoholics tackle this disease alone, viewing it as a test of personal willpower, rather than seeking help.
“I had no idea alcohol addiction was a disease when I was growing up. I just thought my mother acted that way because she felt like it,” said Lisa, a mother of three daughters. “It wasn’t until I found myself in the same boat that I began to understand her more. I just felt hopeless. I’d resigned myself that I was just going to die like my mother because there was no help for this.”
In order for people with alcohol dependence to get the necessary help, it is...
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