Teen crisis intervention has become a familiar topic to the general public due to the popular A&E show, ‘Intervention’. And for most people, it is a drama that they would prefer to confine to the small screen. For those parents of teenagers caught up in teen drug abuse or alcoholism, the very idea of confronting […]
It is amazing that childhood remedies - simple medicines designed to alleviate the discomforts of the common cold, are now a target in the campaign against teen age drug abuse. But when troubled teens are determined to get high, they will find any possible method available to do so.
DXM is the primary ingredient in […]
Some school districts are dead serious about teen crisis intervention in the area of teen alcohol consumption. Police are tired of scraping bodies off the road and parents are fed up coming home to trashed homes where unauthorized teen parties have spun out of control.
“Recent suburban drinking parties attracted 70 teens on Grand Island, […]
Vanity, thy name is teenager. And that’s as it should be - for awhile. Narcissism will, in a healthy human being, give way to compassion, empathy and regard for others. But for awhile, teens are indeed vain. That is what the producers of the newest campaign against teen age drug abuse are appealing to […]
Teen crisis intervention via positive peer pressure is an effective method of teen help employed in many schools for troubled teens, with very good results. It is also employed, in various forms, throughout the country’s public schools via various programs - Teen Court being one most parents have heard of.
When a teen helps their peers […]
Prevention is the most effective means of teen crisis intervention. But how do you prevent gangs from staking out your small community and starting to lay out their turf? Because it seems that gangs are looking into rural America.
“Brunswick’s growing gang problem mirrors a national trend… They’re springing up in small communities across the […]
Parents in the midst of coping with troubled teens need support, pure and simple. What do you do with your teen who is struggling to beat drugs, or the teen who keeps running away? Should you start looking into schools for troubled teens? Is there anyone you can talk to who has sent their son […]
Death recruits dedicated soldiers in the war against teen age drug abuse. Bereaved parents galvanized to action by the deaths of their sons and daughters have been responsible for creating countless programs for troubled teens and campaigns directed at educating teens and parents about drug addiction and culture.
One father, devastated by the accidental overdose of […]
Teen age drug abuse is a concern for many parents and most of these parents are hoping that their teen isn’t using drugs because they are part of a sports team or some type of after school program. We have all heard that kids who are involved in an after school activity are […]
There is teen crisis intervention for drugs, alcohol, sexual offenses and robbery. But there really isn’t a program that specifically addresses how to make a teen comprehend the value of a life. It seems sort of self-evident to most of us and in times past, teens understood that killing another human being was a serious […]