Nearly 19 million children in the United States have at least one parent with a substance use disorder, according to a new study published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics. And a significant number of those children have a parent whose addiction is moderate or severe as opposed to mild, the study finds.
The number amounts to 1 in 4 children with a parent who has addiction.
“I’m an addiction doc, and so I think about this issue all the time,” says Dr. Scott Hadland, chief of adolescent medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, who wasn’t involved in the new study. “Even still, I was surprised at how high that percentage was. It’s just an enormous number of kids that are affected.”
This just in, the world sucks and people are tired, depressed, and lonely and most of us are fucked up in one way or another. Apparently drugs help with this.
I’m an addict, been clean for a long time from drug of choice but I know why I became one. Fortunately my kid was the thing that turned me around.
I’m not surprised at all at this number honestly.
Yep
we live in a dystopian nightmare and people have to cope somehow
