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Addiction isn't a moral failing. It's an adaptation.

In Family Addictus, Joe Van Wie, co-founder of Fellowship House treatment center, reveals how addiction often begins long before the first drink in the first 1,000 days of life, where misattunement and early disconnection create the perfect conditions for substances to feel like missing pieces finally arriving.

Van Wie weaves together neuroscience, attachment theory, and years of clinical experience to show how addiction spreads through family systems like inherited code, how modern culture creates perfect conditions for disconnection, and why traditional approaches often miss the deeper story.

Drawing from the innovative Twelve CORES framework developed at Fellowship House, Van Wie shows how recovery goes beyond abstinence to become a complete rewiring of identity, purpose, and belonging. He explores the neurochemical loops that make substances feel like solutions rather than problems, and how healing happens not through willpower alone, but through connection, community, and reclaiming the pause between stimulus and response.

Recovery means returning to your body, your family, your community, and yourself. It means learning that you're not broken. You adapted. You survived. And now, you're ready to wake up.

Written for anyone touched by addiction (whether personally, professionally, or through someone they love), Family Addictus offers hope grounded in science and compassion rooted in understanding.