group and 24 to the control group. Of the 63 participants, two thirds had experienced violence at the hands of their family member with AUD, and 64% of the participants were the patients’ wives. They had been required to earn money instead of their spouses and parent their children and do household chores, which had lefi them exhausted and made it difficult to attend the program. Finally, most of the participants feared being stigmatized as a family requiring psychiatric treatment, which interfered with recruitment for this study. 1} Ethical Considerations