Schools for troubled teens, drug rehabs, military teen boot camps all address addiction in the individual. But addiction does not grow in a vacuum. Countless documentaries and books explore the cultures of addiction and the environments that spawn it. One such documentary, Cottonland, has met with much acclaim. It studies dependency and it’s connection […]
The consequences of rampant teen age drug abuse reach deeply into the community, spawning an underground economy manned by thugs and the source of endless violence. Drug deals gone bad, turf wars, and drive-by shootings occur on a daily basis in almost every American city. The tragedy is that so much of this bloodshed is […]
Teen crisis intervention begins at home. It begins with committed and aware parents willing to be “proactive instead of reactive” in their teenagers’ lives. It is becoming clear that too many parents either give tacit consent to their teen’s drug or alcohol experimentation, or simply take too few measures to monitor their teen’s activities.
Unfortunately, it […]