The article explores the social issue of addiction and its impact on family dynamics when it invloves death and mourning. Given the wide range of possible deaths in the wake of addictions, the text first addresses the topic through an examination of the different perspectives relating to social, penal and therapeutic control. The second part sheds light on how drug abuse and addiction are related to death and grieving. In the third section, an analysis of how the grieving of families is particularly affected by deaths in a context of addiction and opens a discussion of intervention methods through a functional association of addiction – death – grieving.