Candice Groenewald is a senior research specialist in the Human and Social Development Unit of the Human Sciences Research Council in Durban. She is an honorary research associate in the Psychology Department at Rhodes University and a lecturer as part of the South African Research Ethics Training Initiative (SARETI) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. With a doctorate in psychology, she has dedicated her life of research to adolescent drug abuse and dependence. As the South African representative of the “Five-Step Method”, a support intervention for affected family members, she presented her work at the first international Affected Family Members’ conference, hosted in the UK in November 2018.