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The effects of substance abuse on the family are profound. If one accepts 10 million as the number of adult alcoholics in the United States, probably 40 million people are codependent for alcoholism. How many people are addicted to other drugs or codependent with those who are is not known, but it is thought to be a substantial number. A codependent is a person who lets another person’s behavior (the addict) adversely affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.1–2
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Milhorn, H.T. (1990). The Family. In: Chemical Dependence. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3418-0_5
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