Addiction can be regarded as a family disease because it causes rifts between the addicted individual and his family members. When an individual is addicted, it does not affect them alone, it affects the family.The family would be stressed because it would be difficult to put up with an addicted person since they don’t see eye to eye.A good number of people who are addicted tend to behave erratically and this depends if they are drunk or sober. Even during recovery, they still exhibit some behaviors that do not go down well with their family members.