Teen Crisis Intervention Useless When Parents Are in Denial
Teen crisis intervention is hard to implement in a community where parents and citizens tend to be in denial. Wealthier communities may have a particularly hard time understanding that drugs and drug problems are no longer confined to certain demographics. Troubled teenagers come from both sides of the track.
And what is true in America is apparently also true in Great Britain. One mother, desperate for her son’s life, lashes back at her wealthy neighbors for failing to take the problem seriously.
Relevant Tags:crisis intervention, crystal meth, denial, meth addiction, parents, substance abuse issues, teen crisis intervention, teen crisis, troubled teenagers“One local mother says it’s time for parents to wake up and realize all youths are at risk of becoming drug addicts.
Peggy Strife, who lives in a $400,000 home in a good neighbourhood, has been grappling with her 20-year-old son Brad’s crystal meth addiction for the past several years.
“I’m waiting for him to die,” said Strife about her son…Strife and her spouse lived through their own period of denial about what drugs were doing to Brad. She doesn’t want to see anyone else ignore the problem.
Strife disapproves of recent letters to the editor in the Herald where people have expressed opposition to building a youth treatment centre here.
“We have a high drug rate here and people don’t want to admit it,” Strife said.
When Strife was cruising the streets with a baseball bat, attempting to stop her son from finding and using meth, she rarely tracked down her son in areas like the West Flat, which she says tend to be associated with substance abuse issues.
“A lot of the houses I was at were on the East and West hills,” said Strife. She estimated that there were six youth drug dealers within a five-block radius of her upper-class home.
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