Growing Up with Alcoholic Parents: Understanding Trauma, Addiction, and the Path to Recovery

Send us Fan Mail Read the article on Substack 11 million children in the U.S. are growing up with a parent with alcohol use disorder. Many will carry that trauma into adulthood—often repeating the same patterns. In this episode, we explore: 🧠 Why adult children of alcoholics are 4x more likely to develop their own AUD 🧠 The neurobiology of trauma: How early stress rewires the brain's stress response and reward systems 🧠 The PTSD-addiction connection: 50% of addiction treatment cli...