Troubled Teens Resources

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 from this sad soap opera. The teen must actually be “in crisis”.

In real life, depending on what parents can endure and afford, most troubled teenagers only have one, maybe two chances at most,to turn their lives around. There are no body guards running interference for the normal struggling teen, no chauffeured car to prevent the drunken teen from driving and no exclusive intervention program with revolving doors. Out of control behavior does not reward the average teen ager. In fact, most often,it scars them for life - if it doesn’t kill them.

For everyday folks, there are consequences and for all the sad spectacle that Britney Spears creates for herself day in and out, there have yet to be any real consequences. Not yet. Not as long as she suffers no loss or enduring pain. There are no ugly arrests nor has family services taken her children away. There are just interludes of supposed intervention between parties. And perhaps that is saddest of all. Sometimes deep pain and catastrophic loss are the most extreme interventions life can devise. Hopefully, Britney wakes up before she reaches that point of no return.

If ordinary teens with  limited access to any type of intervention or drug therapy can find their way, surely Miss Spears can as well.