The family should actually be a very strong support system for a person who is looking at recovery from a drug or an alcohol addiction. This must favorably be the case, but there are some people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction in Wyoming for whom the families are becoming major stumbling blocks in their paths of recovery. The state is analyzing such situations and has launched into a significant family awareness drive as to what they must do if there is an addicted person in the house and how they must themselves cope with the situation.

Family codependency is a serious issue for addiction treatment in Wyoming. This happens when the family, knowingly or unknowingly, keeps the person into the addiction. A very simple example of this would be when the family puts the person's addiction under wraps to save themselves from being shunned from the society they live in. This is a very common occurrence. But what actually happens here is that the family gives the wrong signals to the person and that actually helps to keep them into the addiction for longer.

Families also do not know how to convince their members to go for addiction treatment. The intervention program in Wyoming has come alive to this situation and has begun guiding family intervention groups on the right methods to motivate their patients to enter into treatment. This is quite prominently seen in the case of teenage alcohol and drug addiction, where the school or college authorities may come forward to provide a treatment solution for the patient that involves their parents.