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		<title>Drug Addiction Treatment Facilities for Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to recover from drug alcohol addictions, a strong decision and a professional drug rehab is required. As there are number of drug rehabs, find out list of specialized drug rehabs that are having years of experience in treating drug addicts.
Teen drug addiction treatment includes methadone maintenance, drug-free programs and psychological treatments. These drug [...]<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com">Teen Drugs</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com/teen-drugs/drug-addiction-treatment-facilities-for-teens.php">Drug Addiction Treatment Facilities for Teens</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In order to recover from drug alcohol addictions, a strong decision and a professional drug rehab is required. As there are number of drug rehabs, find out list of specialized drug rehabs that are having years of experience in treating drug addicts.</p>
<p>Teen drug addiction treatment includes methadone maintenance, drug-free programs and psychological treatments. These drug addiction treatment facilities are offered to any kind of alcohol abuse in teens. Public and private sectors are offering various addiction treatment facilities for struggling teenagers, which is very helpful and supportive to recover from addictions.</p>
<p>All the treatments are professionally designed with years of experience in treating drug addicted teens. Specialists design a treatment approach for each indiv<span id="more-146"></span>idual based on the initial analysis of teen addiction. Majority of drug rehab centers provide various result oriented facilities such as boarding programs, day programs, individual support, good playgrounds, clinical facilities which bring a new change in teenagers.</p>
<p>The boarding facilities of these rehab centers are very attractive and helpful. Most of these boarding rehab centers offer twenty four hour helpline services to drug addicted teens. Drug addiction treatments offered by Christian rehab centers are flexible for any kind of alcohol abusers. These Christian rehabs offer price less services to affordable cost. Most of the alcohol rehabs are state funded and offer various flexible financial options to drug addicted teens. They provide some special facilities for families with low income and experiencing various types of addiction problems.</p>
<p>The counseling services offered by the alcohol rehabs help teen addicts and families to understand the importance of alcohol addiction treatments in a specialized drug rehabs. Most of the addiction treatment centers offer same kind of facilities for boys and girls experiencing addictions. There are some single gender addiction treatment centers are also available for the disordered teenagers.</p>
<p>These single gender centers are very helpful for girls. They provide all necessary and modern addiction treatment facilities to teens with the help of drug addiction treatment specialists. The staff members of these centers are very caring, helpful and experienced in changing most of the addicted teens to responsible individuals.</p>
<p>Most of the drug treatment schools are very old and have good experience in helping addicted teens. Number of addiction treatment centers is increasing day by day as the addicts are increasing rapidly. At this crucial time choosing a recognized and experienced drug rehab is essential to come out of these drug addictions with a professional approach.</p>
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<p>Abuse of prescription drugs by teenagers is an emerging epidemic, Teri Christensen of Partnership for a Drug-Free America and US Attorney McGregor Scott said Thursday.<br />
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<p>What are some issues that a teen doing drugs could cause them to consider suicide??<br />
How does drug use affect teen suicide?
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		<title>Drug Testing Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>          Drug testing is a way of assessing type and amount of legal or illegal drugs taken by a person. It is a self or laboratory process which looks for evidence of drug consumption by analyzing blood, hair, sweat, saliva or urinal samples.</p>
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<p>              Drugs among teenagers have been on the rise for some time now and have been a matter of concern to parents, family, local authorities and friends.  The problem is much worse in the western countries, especially the US where teenage drug and alcohol abuse statistics show that the more and more children are falling victims to it. According to an annual survey of U.S. youth, three-fourths of 12th graders, more than two-thirds of 10th graders, and about two in every five 8th graders <span id="more-157"></span>have consumed alcohol. How can one be sure if a teenager is on drugs? That one may be victims’ parent, a concerned school official or someone associated with a drug rehab center. Most of the children and young people are uncertain about the law concerning to drugs and the possible consequences for them in their future. If a child is caught in possession of a controlled drug they are bound to be committed a criminal offence and that will be documented by the police and also not permitted from taking up certain jobs or professions, and visiting other countries.</p>
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<p>              Employers need consent from staff for drug testing in the workplace. Any employer will be keen to keep drug misuse away from the workplace. As well as causing ill health, drug misuse increases the chances of accidents at work and interferes with how much work is done. Because of the safety risks from drug misuse, workplace is recommended to have a policy on this matter. The policy could be drawn up between employee and employer or employee health and safety representatives. Employer has legal responsibilities to look after employee’s health and safety as far as reasonably possible and must assess any possible risks. However, there are some limits on what an employer can do to check on an employee&#8217;s activities.</p>
<p>       Teen drug and alcohol drug abuse could possibly happen in any home or school. If you think that the police will only arrest someone who&#8217;s caught dealing drugs that is not true. Even using drugs for personal use may land a person in trouble and could lead to a large fine or time in prison.</p>
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<p>TEEN TRUTH: DRUG &amp; ALCOHOL ABUSE is a poignant film that engages, entertains and educates the viewer about the risks of drug and alcohol use. This follow-up to TEEN TRUTH: BULLY melds intense music, graphics, and teen shot footage with sobering interviews featuring students, drug authorities, and addicts to deliver an honest look inside substance abuse. A must see for all youth, TEEN TRUTH: DRUGS &amp; ALCOHOL delivers an unforgettable message that will make anyone reconsider his or her next hit &#8230;<br />
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<p>What are some good [fiction, young adult] books filled with sex, drugs, eating disorders or teen hardships?<br />I have already read:<br />
Go Ask Alice<br />
Burned<br />
Impulse<br />
Crank<br />
Identical<br />
Twisted<br />
Cut<br />
Perfect</p>
<p>I want books related to those.<br />
They were great! THANKS! <img src='http://www.teen-drugs.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
I have also read:<br />
Perks of Being A Wallflower<br />
Smack<br />
Candy
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		<title>Understanding What Causes Alcoholism and Drug Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl-Peter Lehmann</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Really understanding and getting to the root of the causes of alcoholism and drug addiction isn&#8217;t straightforward &#8211; because they are complex illnesses by nature.</p>
<p>Genetic factors and the fact that alcoholism and addiction is hereditary in many cases, certainly does play a role. But that only explains part of the story because ultimately we&#8217;re all shaped by our environmental influences &#8211; parents, family, peers, experiences, media etc.</p>
<p>Now when looking at the role psychology plays in alcoholism and drug addiction &#8211;  a large part of our psychological makeup is formed in our early childhood years. Primarily through our parents and family environment.</p>
<p>Generally speaking &#8211; if we come from a generally loving, stable and supportive family environment (especially in our early childhood years) &#8211; it usually means we grow up with better self confidence and are more comfortable with ourselves and who we are.</p>
<p>Or if when we&#8217;re young we, we have a more traumatic childhood &#8211; which could mean anything from losing a parent, having one of our parents addicted to drugs or alcohol, our parents divorcing, or anything that really effects us emotionally &#8211; it could result in us developing various ways to cope with that, which can then manifest in our lives in all sorts of different ways.</p>
<p>This could mean you find yourself developing a whole bunch of stuff &#8211; which could be anything from depression to anger, anxiety, different kinds of eating disorders and naturally various forms of addiction, including drugs and alcohol.</p>
<p>Chances are &#8211; speak to an alcoholic or drug addict &#8211; that there will be a significant trauma or event that affected them, most likely when they were young. In my case it was having an alcoholic parent and the strain that put on our family.</p>
<p>Naturally it doesn&#8217;t always happen that way. You&#8217;ll find many cases, I&#8217;m sure, of alcoholics and drug addicts that were brought up in a loving, stable and supportive environment. But hopefully when considering alcoholism and psychology and trying to understand the psychology of addiction &#8211; everything will make a lot more sense for you.</p>
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		<title>Early Warning Signs of Drug Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 09:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl-Peter</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Drug and Alcohol addiction are amongst the most serious and destructive diseases known to man. They are so severe and devastating that more people are killed as a result of them than all other chronic illnesses combined</p>
<p>If you can, you want to try and catch an addiction early &#8221; because it gets progressively worse the longer you leave it until it even becomes life-threatening.</p>
<p>Three of the most obvious warning signs of alcoholism or drug addiction are experiencing withdrawals when you stop drinking or taking drugs which can show up in anxiety and getting the shakes, developing an increased tolerance so you need to use or drink more to get the same effects, and trying unsuccessfully on numerous occasions to cut down or quit</p>
<p>So ideally you want to get help as soon as these symptoms start manifesting. Problem is, alcoholics and drug addicts tend to live in denial and are therefore resistant to want to receive help until things are often really bad.</p>
<p>Acknowledging your addiction, whatever it is, is the first step in successful recovery. You use that as the foundation on which you build your recovery because then you are ready to receive help.</p>
<p>Performing an intervention is one of the most effective ways for helping someone you love break through their denial and ensuring they get proper help &#8221; so thats the route to follow if its not you but someone you care about struggling with addiction.</p>
<p>The two biggest weapons you have in your arsenal to combat an addiction are knowledge &#8221; and then putting that knowledge into practice. Do that &#8221; and any addiction can successfully be overcome.</p>
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		<title>Signs of Alcoholism and Addiction To Be Aware Of</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl-Peter</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are a number of different ways to pick up on the signs and symptoms of alcoholism or drug addiction. Usually your instincts will tell you something is wrong, but we have a tendency to second-guess ourselves so some &#8216;hard facts&#8217; are usually required.</p>
<p>Your opinion can also be affected depending on what perspective you&#8217;re looking at the problem from. Is it you that you&#8217;re worried about and so want to be able to recognize the signs of addiction for your own understanding?</p>
<p>Or are you concerned about a spouse, child, lover, or friend? There aren&#8217;t necessarily any infallible guidelines, but hopefully I can provide you with a few things to look out for and should you then want more information, just visit the links provided to my website.</p>
<p>A couple of the main physical signs of alcoholism or drug addiction are liver problems and high blood pressure, which can cause severe tiredness or even result in things like strokes and heart attacks. But unless you see a Doctor in time, you often won&#8217;t pick on them until it&#8217;s too late.</p>
<p>Signs of alcoholism and drug addiction that you are possibly likely to pick up on sooner &#8211;  are for example making promises (even if it&#8217;s just to yourself) that you&#8217;re going to cut down or stop, which are obviously not kept; needing more and more to get the feeling you want;  and withdrawals that become worse and worse.</p>
<p>For me the key indicator of a real problem is when your using or drinking starts to impact your sense of self, and when day to day things that have been fine before become effected &#8211; like work, school, relationships etc.</p>
<p>Another good way to test for addiction is to use psychometric type addiction and alcoholism tests &#8211; which are mostly very accurate in identifying a genuine addiction problem. I don&#8217;t unfortunately have enough space to put them here &#8211; but feel free to visit my website to try one.</p>
<p>So, being able to identify an addiction in yourself or someone you care about, can be done in a few different ways. Read up on the various symptoms and signs, try a psychometric type test, and you should then have a reasonably good idea if indeed there is a genuine problem.</p>
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		<title>Addiction and Alcoholism Recovery Info and Help</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl-Peter Lehmann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look - the first thing that you need to understand, is that recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism, is something totally separate from treating these addictions.<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com">Teen Drugs</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com/drug-abuse/addiction-and-alcoholism-recovery-info-and-help.php">Addiction and Alcoholism Recovery Info and Help</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="teenbyline" style="italic;">by Carl-Peter</div>
<p>Look &#8211; the first thing that you need to understand, is that recovery from drug addiction and alcoholism, is something totally separate from treating these addictions.</p>
<p>The treatment of addiction is in most cases about the period of roughly a month &#8211; where you&#8217;ll be at rehab or addiction treatment facility detoxing and receiving various form of treatment &#8211; to help you deal with the various factors that have resulted in you going down the road of addiction.</p>
<p>Recovery then &#8211; is what follows going to rehab and receiving treatment. It&#8217;s pretty much then about what you do for the rest of your life to maintain your sobriety by staying off the drugs or alcohol. I think many that go into treatment don&#8217;t get this at first and that&#8217;s why relapse rates can be high &#8211; because they see treatment as the end of the road for them, when in fact it&#8217;s really only the beginning.</p>
<p>Recovery from alcoholism and addiction then, is in essence, about the consistent habits and new way of life you create for yourself &#8211; so that you stay on the road of recovery road and don&#8217;t end up relapsing.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the 12-Step or other spiritual program you follow, the new (non-addict) friends you now spend your time with, it&#8217;s the continuous taking ownership of your emotions and feelings so you don&#8217;t get into a state where you want to have that drink or pick up that drug, phoning that friend for support when you&#8217;re feeling low and more vulnerable</p>
<p>So in other words &#8211; recovery is all about taking continuous action and forming new life affirming habits that will leave the destructive addict part of you a thing of history &#8211; and bring to the fore your warrior, spirited self that will flourish despite what life may throw at you.</p>
<p>So the treatment of any addiction should be seen as the stepping stone and preparation for a life of recovery. It&#8217;s the beginning &#8211; rather than the end of the road. Now I know there are people that leave a life of addiction behind them without going the treatment/rehab route &#8211; but they&#8217;ve also done it by making significant changes in most areas of their lives and working at it consistently.</p>
<p>So when trying to understand alcohol addiction recovery and drug addiction recovery &#8211; remember its something you do and work at for the rest of your life. It can be hard at the beginning, but with time does become much easier &#8211; and soon your life will be unrecognisable from the nightmare it was.</p>
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		<title>Understanding Alcoholism and Drug Addiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carl-Peter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of people out there that really want to understand alcoholism and drug addiction. So the questions - 'what is alcoholism or what is drug addiction?' are very common.<p>Post from: <a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com">Teen Drugs</a><br/><br/><a href="http://www.teen-drugs.com/drug-abuse/understanding-alcoholism-and-drug-addiction.php">Understanding Alcoholism and Drug Addiction</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="teenbyline" style="italic;">by Carl-Peter</div>
<p>There are a lot of people out there that really want to understand alcoholism and drug addiction. So the questions &#8211; &#8216;what is alcoholism or what is drug addiction?&#8217; are very common.</p>
<p>So if you are one of those people, hopefully I can help. Now you need to understand that alcoholism and drug addiction can be quite complex to get a handle on.</p>
<p>The kind of things you would need to know to understand them in depth, would include things like whether drug addiction and alcoholism is a disease, the causes of alcoholism and addiction, and the genetic/hereditary impact on addiction and alcoholism.</p>
<p>But lets take it a step further back first and go deeper than that &#8211; so that we really get to the heart of the problem.</p>
<p>Whether you have a genetic predisposition towards alcoholism or drug addiction making you more susceptible &#8211; or whether life has just given you a few bad breaks so you use drugs or alcohol to help you cope, which has led you to addiction &#8211; there is an underlying reason that explains it all.</p>
<p>And I think it&#8217;s ultimately an emptiness and lack of wholeness that you feel, which you cover up or try to hide/suppress by using drugs and alcohol. I know &#8211; I&#8217;ve been there. You feel disconnected to life and question your purpose, which is something I used to do all the time. Still do actually, but it&#8217;s not nearly as bad.</p>
<p>According to Dr. Andrew Weil, who has a brilliant explanation for it in his book, Natural Health, Natural Medicine; addiction is not psychological or pharmacological problem and can&#8217;t be solved using these methods. He says it is at root, a Spiritual Concern, due to the fact that it represents a misdirected attempt at experiencing wholeness, satisfaction and inner completeness.</p>
<p>So in trying to understand, what is drug addiction and what is alcoholism actually? Remember that they are in essence a Spiritual &#8216;problem.&#8217; And by doing that, you will be far more effective in treating and recovering from them successfully.</p>
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