This book is based on the premise that living with substance use shouldnot and cannot remain secret. In fact, children and young people's viewsand experiences are key to the development and delivery of services.
Secret Lives examines these experiences for practitioners in order toimprove services for what is - at times - a painfully disadvantagedgroup.
The book provides research evidence about the impact of family substanceuse on children and young people from problems at birth to stigma, shameand isolation. The list goes on and, on the whole, contains nosurprises. What was new, at least for me, was evidence of thesignificant negative impact of sibling substance use for some (not all)younger siblings, and the number of young people living in a culture ofviolence and threats from within the family.
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