Troubled Teens Resources

Do you need an argument to convince yourself and your husband that looking into schools for troubled teens is the right decision for your Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder teen. After all, he has already abused his Ritalin by selling it to make enough money to buy pot, combining the two. He’s admitted to drinking. He is remorseful, you are angry and his Dad places a great deal of blame on the public school system. And Dad would be right.

Consider this excerpt from the just released National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XII: Teens and Parents conducted by CASA.

“This fall more than 16 million teens will return to middle and high schools where drug dealing, possession, use and students high on alcohol or drugs are part of the fabric of their school,”…“Too many of our nation’s high and middle schools have become marijuana marts and pill palaces. Parents should wake up to this reality and realize more likely than not, your teen is going to school each day in a building where drug use, sale and possession is as much a part of the curriculum as math or English and do something about it. For many of our middle and high school students, school days have become school daze.”

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