• Family members don’t have to watch helplessly until their loved one hits rock bottom and wants to change. Family members that educate themselves and undergo training about addiction have a higher chance of getting their loved ones to stop their addictive habit. CRAFT is a training program for family members to provide this education and training. It also teaches family members to empower themselves and break the constant cycle of false hope, broken trust, anger, resentment, and worry. Sign up below for our family classes to start learning these tools.

  • Great examples of helping include learning about addiction, attending training programs like CRAFT, or helping your loved one get into treatment. Helping too much or in the wrong way can actually be harmful and enable our loved one’s addiction. A primary example of this is covering up or making excuses for your loved one’s addiction, and not letting them suffer the consequences or learn from their addiction.
    Enabling can happen in subtle ways, such as ignoring or covering up unacceptable behavior, blaming others (i.e. instead of your addicted loved one), taking over their responsibilities, and lying to cover up their mistakes. All family members do this to some degree until they undergo a process of education and training themselves.

  • Professional treatment is an important part of helping rewire the addicted brain. Finding treatment is not always easy. Join our family classes to learn how.

    Treatment is not limited to a few months in a program. That is just the first phase of recovery. It should be followed by aftercare such as an outpatient aftercare program or a recovery residence such as Madina House Recovery Residence.

    Family members play an important part in supporting their loved ones after treatment and keeping them accountable to their aftercare program.

  • We encourage family members to join our anonymous, virtual family group which provides training on how to effectively deal with a loved one who has an addiction. If they are not interested in treatment, we teach skills to help manage this situation and navigate getting your loved into treatment. We use faith-based principles along with evidence-based skills proven to get your loved one into treatment and reduce your stress.

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We livestream the first part of our weekly family class which is broken down into three parts. 1. Foundations 2. Skills Building 3. Group interactions and Q&A The livestream is intended as an intro for family members who are new to recovery. To learn more or ask questions, we encourage you to join our live family classes.

Family Classes

We encourage family members to join our anonymous, virtual family group which provides training on how to effectively deal with a loved one who has addiction. This family group works if your loved one is in treatment or if they are not in treatment. If they are not interested in treatment, we teach skills to help manage this situation and navigate getting your loved into treatment. We use faith-based principles along with evidence-based skills proven to get your loved one into treatment and reduce your stress. Contact us if you are interested in the weekly family groups.

Does Your Loved One Have an Addiction?

Dealing with a loved one with addictive habits is very difficult. Many family members suffer in silence because they don’t want to give up on their loved one, yet are paralyzed by shame to seek help. Many family members focus on managing the downstream effects of addiction (e.g. dishonesty, conflicts, crisis, etc) and do not address the root cause. The solution starts once you can uncover the underlying cause. How do you know if your loved one has an addiction? Click here to learn if your loved one has an addiction.

How Can Family Members Help?

Family members don’t have to watch helplessly until their loved one hits rock bottom and want to change. Family members that educate themselves and undergo training about addiction have higher a chance of getting their loved one to stop their addictive habit. CRAFT is a training program designed for family members to provide this education and training. It also teaches family members to empower themselves and break the constant cycle of false hope, broken trust, anger, resentment, and worry. You can find CRAFT and more support for families at SmartRecovery.org

Does Your Loved One Choose Their Addiction Over Family?

Addictive behaviors are defined by a loss of control and compulsion to pursue the addiction despite negative consequences and even death. Sometimes it can feel like your loved one chooses their addiction over their family or religion. This can cause a lot of heartache, stress, and grief within a family. People with addiction can struggle to show their love in meaningful ways. This is because they are simply unable to control their addiction. Click here to learn about how addiction affects the brain.

Helping vs Enabling

Great examples of helping include learning about addiction, attending training programs like CRAFT, or helping your loved one get into treatment. Helping too much or in the wrong way can actually be harmful and enable our loved one’s addiction. A primary example of this is covering up or making excuses for your loved one’s addiction, and not letting them suffer the consequences or learn from their addiction.

Enabling can happen in subtle ways, such as ignoring or covering up unacceptable behavior, blaming others (i.e. instead of your addicted loved one), taking over their responsibilities, and lying to cover up their mistakes. All family members do this to some degree until they undergo a process of education and training themselves.

Does Addiction Mean That I have Failed as a Muslim?

For Muslims, help is always near. Do not despair because your duas have not yet been answered. Allah is the best of protectors and His timing and knowledge is beyond our understanding.

It is natural to have questions as to why your loved one developed an addiction. There are many risk factors that are associated with people developing an addiction. Click here to learn about how addiction affects the brain.

Learning how to help your loved one control their addiction and find treatment is usually the more important and pressing priority than finding why they developed an addiction in the first place. Once your loved one is on the road to recovery and in treatment, they will learn how to manage addiction long enough to explore the circumstances that lead to their addiction.

How to Find Treatment?

Professional treatment is an important part of helping rewire the addicted brain. Finding treatment is not always easy. Click here to learn how to find treatment.

Treatment is not limited to a few months in a program. That is just the first phase of recovery. It should be followed by aftercare such as an outpatient aftercare program or a recovery residence such as Madina House Recovery Residence.

Family members play an important part in supporting their loved ones after treatment and keeping them accountable to their aftercare program.