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According to a recent study, 40 million Americans ages 12 and older—or more than 1 in 7 people—have addiction involving nicotine, alcohol or other drugs, and all of those people have family members and friends being affected by the addiction as well.

Local Rehab Offering Help To Families Of Addicts

According to a recent study, 40 million Americans ages 12 and older—or more than 1 in 7 people—have addiction involving nicotine, alcohol or other drugs, and all of those people have family members and friends being affected by the addiction as well.


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“When anyone is addicted to anything, it affects everyone who loves or cares for them,” said Cary Quashen, from Action Family Counseling.

Many parents feel ashamed, scared, and overwhelmed, Quashen said. It’s important to figure out a plan of action, and not just act out of emotion.

It’s a struggle between supporting their addicted child or children and not enabling their destructive habit.

“When people act too fast, or too strongly, the household can sometimes be chaotic and can seem like a war zone,” Quashen said. 

Parents should be very much involved in the treatment process, through family therapy, family treatment, and family involvement, Quashen said.

“They should follow through with treatment all the way through, and continue to be involved even through sobriety,” Quashen said. 

Action Family Counseling helps those struggling with drug and alcohol addictions, and leads a series of groups where other parents and family members can talk about their journeys.

“We meet every Tuesday at Canyon High school,” Quashen said. “It’s important to try to be around other people who are going through the same thing; it’s important to find some hope.”

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About Action Family Counseling 

Action Family Counseling has drug and alcohol residential treatment locations in Santa Clarita, Piru, and Bakersfield; Intensive Drug and Alcohol Outpatient in Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Ventura, Pasadena, and Bakersfield, Action Family Counseling is here to help you.

Action Family Counseling’s primary goals are to maintain abstinence, stabilize co-occurring illnesses, and increase quality of life. We support and reinforce change in behavior patterns so that adolescents and adults, or clients and their families can fully indoctrinate the philosophies and principles needed to remain abstinent and stabilized for life.

Action Family Counseling accomplishes this by providing an effective treatment approach developed by the Department of Health and Human Services that includes a multi-disciplinarian personalized approach by a treatment team. Once a patient is identified, we provide an initial screening and assessment, which allows us to properly diagnose and place patients in the appropriate treatment setting. 

Once a patient completes our intake process to our residential program he or she receives 24-hour crisis management, individual counseling, group therapy, family education and counseling, treatment planning, routine and random toxicology screening, pharmacotherapy and medication management, education about Alcohol and Other Drugs and mental health issues, self-help and support group orientation, case management services, and discharge service planning with a transitional service plan to our Intensive Outpatient treatment program to ensure a continuum of care.

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Local Rehab Offering Help To Families Of Addicts

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About Kimberly Beers

Kimberly Beers is a Santa Clarita native. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from California State University, Northridge in 2013. While attending the university, she focused her attention on news writing and worked as a primary news writer for the campus' award winning radio station and televised news program. She began writing news stories for KHTS in 2014 and hopes to have a lifetime career dedicated to writing and sharing the news