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Thought provoking article about teen substance abuse treatment
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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 651750" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>No, but in the U.S. we can't force teens into treatment. If they go, it's because they want to go so we have to pick where they go. Now often it IS the justice system that decides where they go. I don't like the rules, but it's not my call.</p><p></p><p>And even with teens, as I have had one who I thought was only smoking pot, we don't know what they are really doing once they have gone that far off the rails. They plain don't tell us. I don't think anything Therapeutic could have made my daughter better or worse. She hung around with such dangerous people, that she was surrounded by the worst case scenarios. Of course, at the time, we didn't know how bad her "friends" were, and that's the whole problem. We may have stuck her into a group for kids who were only smoking pot when, in fact, she was doing speed, meth, downers and psychedelics, but we didn't know it. There would have been nothing to stop her from talking about it to the other teens, who may also have been doing more than smoking pot. And, yes, in high school Princess became very popular AFTER she started using drugs.</p><p></p><p>But that sure stopped fast after she graduated and half her "friends" were already in jail or on parole and, although she did go to Cosmetology School, most of her "friends" were just hanging around, doing drugs, and not working and the other kids looked down on them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 651750, member: 1550"] No, but in the U.S. we can't force teens into treatment. If they go, it's because they want to go so we have to pick where they go. Now often it IS the justice system that decides where they go. I don't like the rules, but it's not my call. And even with teens, as I have had one who I thought was only smoking pot, we don't know what they are really doing once they have gone that far off the rails. They plain don't tell us. I don't think anything Therapeutic could have made my daughter better or worse. She hung around with such dangerous people, that she was surrounded by the worst case scenarios. Of course, at the time, we didn't know how bad her "friends" were, and that's the whole problem. We may have stuck her into a group for kids who were only smoking pot when, in fact, she was doing speed, meth, downers and psychedelics, but we didn't know it. There would have been nothing to stop her from talking about it to the other teens, who may also have been doing more than smoking pot. And, yes, in high school Princess became very popular AFTER she started using drugs. But that sure stopped fast after she graduated and half her "friends" were already in jail or on parole and, although she did go to Cosmetology School, most of her "friends" were just hanging around, doing drugs, and not working and the other kids looked down on them. [/QUOTE]
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