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Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop?

This companion book to the HBO documentary of the same name sheds light on the hidden American epidemic of addiction.

Blending compelling personal narratives with statistics and expert opinion, all gleaned from over two years of research and reporting, Addiction: Why Can't They Just Stop? offers a comprehensive and provocative look at the impact of chemical dependency on addicts, their loved ones, society, and the economy. Read More at JTO

March 14. 08 Parents say daughter's death one mistake, professinals say a pattern:

Samantha Spady, 19, where she posted photos of herself drinking with captions such as "I was drunk" and "Drunkass me". Just before her death from a blood alcohol level of .43 percent, she posted "I'm also going to get extremely wasted this weekend." Please go to this site to read this tragic story and how the parents are still in denial! Click here.

CRITICAL THINKING:

Five students at Oswego High School in Chicago, Ill., died in what investigators say was an alcohol-related crash. Several students said they wanted to discourage fellow students from drinking and driving during homecoming weekend, and wore shirts to school emblazoned "Class .08" the Friday before -- a double meaning of the class of 2008 and a reminder that .08 percent is the legal alcohol
limit for drivers. School officials told the students to remove their shirts; all did but one. "I decided I wasn't going to back down," said Katie Kusnierz, 17, since their classmates' deaths "really impacted us." Kusnierz was thus suspended -- on the grounds that the shirt's message "could be" interpreted as promoting drinking. (Chicago Tribune) ...Of course, the school administrators "could be" idiots.

This is an article by http://www.thisistrue.com

Inhalant use rising with girls

When Harvey Weiss says that the War on Drugs' focus on illicit substances like marijuana and methamphetamine "sucks up all the oxygen" in policy debates -- leaving little attention for inhalant misuse -- he does so without apparent irony. But as the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (NIPC) marks its 15th anniversary, the issue of inhalants still has problems getting traction among lawmakers or funding for expanded prevention activities.

Weiss, the NIPC's founder and director, was in Washington, D.C., this week to launch National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week and press policymakers and parents to do more about inhalant use. "In Tennessee, all we hear about is methamphetamine, but three times the number of kids use inhalants as meth,"

Weiss contends that, among national anti-drug priorities, inhalants "should rank #1, because there are lots of indicators that inhalants are the first substance young people experiment with." A new report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) says that 1.1 million American adolescents used inhalants in the past year, with use among young girls rising even as it appears to be declining among boys. Read more at JTO

HBO's Addiction Series

GETTING AN ADDICT INTO TREATMENT: THE CRAFT APPROACH
Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is a gentle and effective method for helping families guide addicted loved ones into treatment. From the JTO websie
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Online Teens Openly Chat About Drug Use

June 21, 2007

If you want to know about your child's use of alcohol and other drugs, check out their MySpace page or their instant-messenger conversations, where kids are often recklessly open in discussing their drinking and drugging, USA Today reported June 19.

"Kids are really open about it. I see posts from other people describing a night on acid or whatever," said Ashley Duffy, 19, of West Chester, Pa. "I think they think their parents are clueless. And I guess they are."

A new study from the Caron Treatment Centers analyzed more than 10 million online messages written by teens and found a number of conversations about drinking, taking drugs, and having sex. The study was based on a computerized search of blogs, public chat rooms, message boards, and other Internet sites. Research firm Nielsen BuzzMetrics said that about 2 percent of posts specifically mentioned alcohol or other drugs.

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Attention Parents of Military Overseas

If your son or daughter is serving in the Military overseas and they need recovery support you may want to send for this.

A group of recovering alcoholics outside Cleveland Ohio, has started a program to provide AA speaker CD's on a monthly basis to our service men and women. This service is offered FREE to anyone who wants to receive them,

To begin receiving CDs, send your mailing address (APO) by clicking here.

They will confirm receipt of your request and include you in the next mailing. Please direct any questions to Chuck B at the above address.

Spirituality and Addiction

Alcoholism, in addition to being a biological disorder, is a spiritual disorder," lead author Dr. Lisa Miller told Reuters Health. "Adolescents who claim to have a personal relationship with the Divine are only half as likely to become alcoholics or drug addicts, or for that matter even to try contraband drugs (marijuana and cocaine). This is particularly important because onset of alcoholism and drug addiction usually occurs in adolescents. Read more...

Are you the Last to Know?

If your teen is drinking, smoking or using drugs, chances are you might be the last to know if you are like 50 percent of the parents who participated in a recent study by Washington University's school of medicine in St. Louis.

"Specifically, if a child reported having used alcohol, the parent said their child had used alcohol only 50 percent of the time," said Laura Jean Bierut, author of the study in the October issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research. "Similarly, when a child reported having used tobacco, the parent reported this only 55 percent of the time, and when a child reported having used marijuana, the parent report agreed only 47 percent of the time." Bierut's research also found that the younger the children were the less likely their parents suspected substance abuse.

Girl Talk: a blog worth looking at.

The goal of the Girl Talk blog is to provide a means of communication between moms and daughters about the dangers of underage drinking. It also provides a venue in which young women can communicate with their peers, share experiences and get insights on the dangers of underage drinking from other perspectives. Check out Girl Talk

Raising Teens

by A. Rae Simpson

From MIT comes a wonderul FREE book on raising teens. In creating Raising Teens, particular emphasis was placed on identifying those conclusions about the parenting of adolescents where there is widespread agreement among researchers and practitioners. You will find, for example, a set of Five Basics of Parenting Adolescents, with a list of strategies for each. Also featured is a list of Ten Tasks of Adolescence, which delineates the main aspects of adolescent development that parents and other adults need to be aware of and support.

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Spirituality & Addiction
Raising Teens
Last to Know?

Health Insurance for High Risk People

Patient Services Incorporated (PSI) is a non-profit organization primarily dedicated to providing health insurance premium assistance, pharmacy co-payment assistance and co-payment waiver assistance for persons with specific expensive chronic illnesses.If someone in your family has a chronic illness and you have trouble buying insurance or making your co-payments, you should check out the service they offer.

Parents, It's not your Fault!

The book that teaches you to sober coach your addicted teen

Digital copy now available!