Here’s a sobering thought: While your average recreational substance user is busy defending their “harmless fun,” approximately 8.7 million children in the United States alone are living in households where at least one parent struggles with substance use disorder. That’s right – one in eight children under 17 are watching their childhood disappear into the bottom of someone else’s bottle or going up in someone else’s smoke. Let’s cut through the haze and look at what the research actually tells us about this “recreational” activity’s impact on the next generation.

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