Troubled Teens Resources

Teen age drug abuse can be fought using huge sweeping media campaigns, such as the barrage of anti-meth commercials and programs sweeping across many states in the West, or, it can be fought by making six beds available to teen meth users crippled by their addiction. All efforts, small or large, are critical in fighting this particularly insidious drug.

So this Salvation Army’s outreach of six beds here and another dozen here may not seem like much, they are just as valuable as multi-million dollar ad campaigns for the troubled teens whose lives are impacted.

“The Salvation Army in Victoria, BC has opened a new residential treatment program for drug-addicted youth.

Beacon of Hope House is located in the manse of St. Saviour’s Anglican Church in Victoria West, and it has room six male addicts, each with his own bedroom. Two staff members are on duty at all times, so that supervision is continuous, and clients are not allowed outside without accompanying staff.

The Salvation Army hopes to have a similar facility for females within eighteen months.”
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Unlike other drugs, meth can take it’s addictive grip rapidly. And the downward spiral of the addict is just as rapid. More to the point, recovery is a very hard for the meth addict to maintain. Programs like that above are necessary because they offer the addict a means to separate themselves from their addiction while gaining ways and strength to fight it once they are out of treatment.