Troubled Teens Resources

Boarding schools are not the last resort for parents dealing with teen age drug abuse. Boarding schools, in many instances, are very often the best and wisest choice to deal with troubled teenagers. Many teens at risk go through out-patient drug rehab programs successfully, yet relapse a few months later. A primary cause for relapse is that they return to the same environment and friends ill equipped to deal with the influences that triggered their drug addiction to begin with.

A troubled teen boarding school or a military boarding school extracts the teen completely from the destructive social scene, school and friends that contributed to the start of a troubled teen’s addiction. An addict needs time and opportunity to gain an identity unrelated to their drug addicted past. They also need to time to develop the coping skills and inner strength to resist the temptations that will present themselves from their old life.

“A person who enters detox at a clinic would face strong reminders if he went back to his community and friends.

An alcoholic might go to a bar with his friends planning to be the designated driver, only to relapse. Or a drug user might think he’s going to his dealer’s house just to talk, Stewart said.

But the old environment and friends usually don’t support recovery, he said.

“It’s important to replace them with new friends who are trying to do more things with their life than being an alcoholic or user,” Stewart said.”

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The focus when considering your teenager’s drug abuse will naturally be on their emotional, psychological and spiritual states. Often times, the not readily apparent physical ramifications of ingesting what, in essence are toxins, can be overlooked. More often than not, a teenage drug abuser can mask the deleterious effects of drug consumption. The “highs” that teenagers so ardently seek out can also camouflage the toll and drain that the body endures processing these chemicals. One immediately thinks of consequences to the liver.

Detox is a necessary part of the process.

When looking at various substance abuse treatment programs for your addicted teenager, you will find a variety of programs that include detoxifying the body as a step in their treatment process. One such variation is the Narconon® New Life Detoxification Program.

“While drugs and their metabolites quickly become undetectable in blood and urine, some as rapidly as 3 days after last usage,drug metabolites remain stored in fatty tissues for years. That accumulated drug residues continue to cause adverse symptoms led L. Ron Hubbard to develop a program aimed at reducing levels of toxins in the body to assist in recovery.

The New Life Detoxification Program utilizes a combination of exercise, induced sweating in a sauna, and nutritional supplements to produce the following results.”

• Reduction or elimination of drug and alcohol cravings.
• Reduction or elimination of many symptoms associated with drug addiction and alcoholism. These can include depression, irritability, and fatigue.
• Ability to think more clearly.
• Improved memory and attention span.
• Increased energy.
• Increased sense of well being.
• Enthusiasm toward Life.

Such a program can be designed by the teenager’s physician and therapist as well. The point is to heal mind, spirit, and body, assuring a firmer purchase on sobriety as the troubled teenager progresses from rehab into a renewed life.