More than 100 children a week are contacting the ChildLine helpline with worries about their parents' drinking or drug use, according to the NSPCC. To read more about the report visit this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10981688.

BBC Radio 5 Live interviewed Emma who set COAP up and Mandy (not her real name) a COAP volunteer who also grew up with parental addiction. To hear the interview click on this

link (it's 41 mins in) http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b00tgdvk. Thank you Mandy for sharing your story and helping to raise awareness about the effects of parental addiction!! We hope many more young people will reach out and get some support. Please don't go through it alone. There are many young people here on COAP who are living with a parent's addiction who all support each other.  

COAP is a website for young people affected by someone else's addiction to drugs, alcohol, or some form of addictive behaviour such as gambling.  

Welcome to the COAP website. 

COAP has over 500 young people who have signed up with many posting messages in the forums to share their experiences of living with another person's addiction.  

COAP is not an emergency service. If you consider your problem to be life threatening or if it is extremely serious please contact the emergency services or other appropriate agencies. Please see the links section for other important links.  

Newsround has made a special programme called Living With Alcohol.

It is all about how young people are affected by their parents' relationship with drink.

It tells the real-life stories of three children who have had very different experiences.

Watch the programme here. http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8770000/newsid_8772500/8772528.stm

The COAP website has been updated so you may have noticed some changes to the menu sidebar on the left hand side and to the News section. The COAP message board rules have also changed - please check these out in the Guide to COAP section.