Have you ever wondered who you would be if you had never watched TV? If for your entire life you had developed opinions based on your own critical thinking as opposed to what some over paid pundit instructed you to think?
What if for every sit-com episode you’ve watched, you had read a book […]
Tear down. Build up. Wax on. Wax off. Process. Because healing is a process it can’t be rushed. There are no effective ‘quick fix’ teenage treatment programs. Your drug abusing teen is broken inside. Re-building them inside, empowering your teenager with the use of their own skills and talents, teaching them the value of their […]
Powerful music is a catalyst and a trigger. A drug abusing or at-risk teenager’s volatile emotional state lends itself perfectly to the combined power of music and lyrics to persuade; to coax anger, or to suggest joy, to depict a future or keep banging on doom. Music summons a troubled teenager to one place or […]
Connie got through the sixties and drug experimentation just fine and she took a rather smug view over the hysteria, as she called it, surrounding teenage drug abuse. So she had little patience for Kate’s late night call begging her to come out to California to be part of a crisis intervention being organized for […]
One of the most virulent drugs troubled teens can abuse is meth. The descent from normal teenager to addict is much more rapid in meth addiction than with most other drugs.
The initial affects of the drug are exuberance and a sense of control and power. The contrast between this state of mind and the usual […]
The efficacy in animal therapy for teens has long been well established. Unfortunately, part and parcel of a troubled teen’s profile includes alienation , a guardedness of the heart that often stunts the efforts of the parent to reach the teen. Having come to believe that emotional attachments to friends and family are too threatening, […]
A brilliant student, an ardent athlete, a compassionate and responsive teenager, Ben was every parent’s dream teen. Early in his sophomore year his younger brother met with a tragic accident that no one could have foresaw, yet Ben blamed himself. Therapy and counseling could not ease the young man’s guilt but drug and alcohol […]
“What do you have to be depressed about? You have everything you could possibly want,” is often the frustrated parent’s response to a teen who confesses that he or she is depressed. But the fact is, all that the teen does have materially is not necessarily what the teen actually wants or needs. An […]
Britney Spears. As parents anguish over the decision to
employ some kind of crisis intervention for their troubled teen, this former teen star flagrantly throws away the opportunity for a drug and alcohol intervention program that most parents would give their right arm to be able to afford.But there is a lesson to be learned […]
It is hard for the rebellious teen to see the down side of a good high. Boredom and alienation drove them into drug abuse and, for a very short time, drugs seem to offer all of the excitement and fulfillment an empty heart could need.
Until you need more. And then more. But what every drug […]