The Hungarian Maltese Charity Service has sounded an alarm over an estimate that 400,000 children in Hungary live in families affected by addiction. Specialists presented the figure, which the charity described as shocking. The estimate concerns children growing up with a parent or other relative struggling with substance-use disorder. The charity's warning treats those children as indirect victims of adult addiction rather than as users themselves. Their lives can be shaped by financial insecurity, unstable housing and prolonged stress within the home. No survey method, age breakdown or regional distribution is given in the short report, so the number should be read as an estimate rather than a precise count. The charity's intervention makes addiction a child-welfare concern as well as a health issue.