Drug and Alcohol Addiction

My family has been touched by addiction in many ways. I am a recovering addict of drugs. My first husband was cross addicted to drugs and alcohol. After years of physical and emotional abuse I decided to break the cycle. I almost lost my life that day. A woman told me once "you just taught your son he can hit and your daughter that she could be hit." The thought mortified me and I had to fix this right away. My oldest became an addict and was in an IOP (Intensive outpatient program) for three years. He was in the court system most of his teen years. My husband now is a recovering alcoholic that is disabled by chronic pain. The struggle still remains with prescription drugs and the knowledge of having to live his life with pain. We are learning to just manage it with drugs.