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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 608964" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>My worry would be just this: "Getting him away from substance abusing peers." All the kids in that school are at least former substance abusers. Statistically quite a few are also current users most likely.</p><p></p><p>It is very common theme when people with substance abuse issues talk about their substance abuse history. When they are sent to treatment as minors, they get to know other, more experienced, users and learn to use harder stuff from other kids. And learn how to avoid getting caught better.</p><p></p><p>This can be true even with adults, who go to treatment voluntarily. They too can get marginalized and immersed more to substance abusing sub culture, but it is even more a threat with minors, because often many of them are there against their wishes or just to please parents and without their own motivation. Many may find their motivation during treatment, but many don't.</p><p></p><p>Treatment and stopping a youth to their tracks is still often needed with substance abusing teens and pros heavily outweigh the cons. But this type of school as an after care could be more iffy when it comes to pros and cons.</p><p></p><p>Of course immersing your kid to (mostly) sober peer group who have always been sober and haven't used substances, while ideal, can be very difficult to do in reality. So I would first find out if there is things to do while sober for kids outside this school program, and if your kid could be interested about any of that, and if there is therapy and support groups available outside this school, I would first think about managing it without sending a kid to spend all his time with other kids with (recent) substance abuse history and likely other big problems.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 608964, member: 14557"] My worry would be just this: "Getting him away from substance abusing peers." All the kids in that school are at least former substance abusers. Statistically quite a few are also current users most likely. It is very common theme when people with substance abuse issues talk about their substance abuse history. When they are sent to treatment as minors, they get to know other, more experienced, users and learn to use harder stuff from other kids. And learn how to avoid getting caught better. This can be true even with adults, who go to treatment voluntarily. They too can get marginalized and immersed more to substance abusing sub culture, but it is even more a threat with minors, because often many of them are there against their wishes or just to please parents and without their own motivation. Many may find their motivation during treatment, but many don't. Treatment and stopping a youth to their tracks is still often needed with substance abusing teens and pros heavily outweigh the cons. But this type of school as an after care could be more iffy when it comes to pros and cons. Of course immersing your kid to (mostly) sober peer group who have always been sober and haven't used substances, while ideal, can be very difficult to do in reality. So I would first find out if there is things to do while sober for kids outside this school program, and if your kid could be interested about any of that, and if there is therapy and support groups available outside this school, I would first think about managing it without sending a kid to spend all his time with other kids with (recent) substance abuse history and likely other big problems. [/QUOTE]
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