海洛因成癮者的家庭研究

The Study of the Heroin Addicts' Families

本文旨在探討海洛因成癮者的家庭，包括家庭因素對個人涉入海洛因濫用生涯之影響，及個人涉入海洛因濫用生涯家庭系統的改變情形。研究者採質化研究法，以類似「回溯性縱貫的訪談方法」收集資料。本研究共計訪問41位海洛因成癮者及42位病患家屬。重要的研究發現如下：（1）家庭為個人涉入海洛因濫用生涯的重要影響因素。（2）病患涉入海洛因濫用生涯後，原生家庭系統或再生家庭系統產生改變。（3）家屬大多數為病患的共同依賴者，家屬和病患的主要互動方式為控制、縱容、責怪他人、及共同嗑藥等。

The purpose of this paper is to explore heroin addicts' families, including familial impacts on individual involvement in abusing herion and changes in the family system after the individual becomes an addict. Modified retrospective longitudinal interviews were conducted to collect the research data. The data were based upon 41 heroin addicts and 42 addicts' family members. The important findings were as follows: (1) The family had significant impact on the individual involvement in abusing heroin. (2) The family systems had significant changes after individuals become addicts. (3) Most of the family members were the addict's codependents. Furthermore, the interaction patterns among addicts and their family members included controlling, enabling, blaming others and, co-addiction.