Over 1.3 million children in the UK grow up in families where drug and alcohol addiction is part of everyday family life. Such children are vulnerable to neglect, lack of structure and isolation. Perhaps forced to care for siblings and parents, an unfair burden can be put on them from an early age. This often has a damaging impact on emotional development, academic achievement and life opportunities. In fact, these children are 7 times more likely to become addicts themselves in later life.

As the leading drug and alcohol treatment charity in the UK, Addaction understands the challenges in supporting the whole family in their recovery from addiction and the need to innovate to help children at risk. Our specialist Breaking the Cycle workers provide individually designed care packages that include a range of services to help people overcome their problems such as interventions, one to one counselling, help with housing, health and support for families to turn their lives around.