Amber Hollingsworth asserts that family conflict is a larger barrier to recovery than the addiction itself. The speaker argues that ongoing arguing, blame, denial, and enabling among family members nurtures and perpetuates substance use, undermining attempts to get the person into treatment.
That conflict that happens between the family members is actually a much bigger barrier than the addiction itself. It's a much bigger barrier than how do we get this person out of denial? Or how do we get this person to treatment? Because as long as you got all these other characters in the story here, who can't agree, who are arguing, who are blaming each other, who are in denial, enabling, playing the bag out, all the things, then the addiction is going to continue to grow. It just nurtures it.
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