Real Help for Parents of Teens in Recovery
Prevention Mode is not Crisis
Your repsonse should be different.
From the book, Sober Coaching Your Toxic Teen
an interactive guide
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Basic overview
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Just as drug “abuse” is not the same as drug “addiction,” what you do in “prevention mode” is not the same as what you do in “crisis mode.” All too often parents and even professionals overreact and take drastic measures when they aren’t warranted. If you are in prevention mode, there are some very good resources listed in this section for you to follow up on.
However, when dealing with adolescents and young adults, drug issues can catapult your family from prevention to crisis in the blink of an eye. For that reason, even if you are only in the prevention mode, we suggest that you stay informed by giving a cursory review of the rest of this site and review the resources we have listed here. in addition:
» Continue to answer the 21 Questions in The winning Hand (Free Downloads to the left) once a year for each of your children over the age of nine
» Drug test when appropriate
» Spend some time reviewing the Web-based information and help listed below
» Join at least one of the prevention organizations listed below to make a difference in your community and keep you involved in drug abuse prevention
Effective Prevention Links
Solid and stable information, now do it!
The Family Guide site supports the Start Talking Before They Start Drinking Campaign in their efforts to combat underage drinking and to educate parents, youth, and others on the issue of alcohol abuse. Underage drinking can have serious consequences. Expressing a clear, consistent message about alcohol actually does help. Being your kid's pal does not.
Spanish Speaking Resources Hablemos en Confianza is designed for Latino community and durg abuse prevention. Free book markers, posters, guidebooks, activity's books.
Learning to talk to your kids. Good site, Lots of great tips for starting the conversations you need to have them.
Screenings and brief interventions (SBI) address risky alcohol use long before it leads to health, financial, social, employment or family problems. Research shows that a brief, non-judgmental intervention by a health care professional can have a positive, long term impact on risky alcohol use.
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Prevention Organizations
Don't do this alone
MADD Mother's Against Drunk Driving. Good information for talking to children about drinking and driving. All State drinking and driving laws are listed. You can also find out aobu their Youth Leadership Power Camps.
Tough Love International: The TOUGHLOVE® Parenting Program is a loving solution that empowers families to overcome denial, take action, and take control.
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Note: The information on this site is from the book,Sober Coaching Your Toxic Teen
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TPPrescriptions
LoIIn your house?
Fourty-four percent of parents believe that teens who abuse prescription drugs get them from their parents. Yet an overwhelming 71 percent of parents do not take any special precautions to protect prescription drugs in their homes.
Source: The National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Aubse IX, 2004.TE
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Thank God My Kid Is Only Drinking
Have you said this to yourself?
A lot of parents are relieved to find out that, when their kids "party," they do so with alcohol instead of marijuana or cocaine. There isn’t a problem caused by illicit drugs that can’t be caused just as easily by alcohol. Click here for the ariticle.
MADD launches a 24-Hour Live Helpline
Speak to a counselor
Emotional support, guidance, and referrals are now available to victims/survivors of drunk driving, as well as friends and families, around the clock through a toll-free helpline.If you are a victim of drunk driving in need of assistance, please call MADD’s toll-free help line at 1-877-MADD-HELP to speak with a counselor who is ready to help you.
Does your teen want to help their friends?
Make sure their "helping" isn't really hurting
Worksheets for teens who wnat to help their friends: It's very difficult for teens to help their friends because most forms of help look like they are "ratting" on them. Disloyalty to your pals is a huge no-no in teendomhood. So we must challenge to belief system of the young person in order to get them to question the expectations of their peers. We call this: Chanllenging the BS (Belief System). Parents, please take this worksheet and pamphlet, download and print out and give this to school counselor. It is distributed free from this site.
1. Pamphlet: Speaking Up:(181 kb's takes a few minutes to download) has a story of a best friend who killed a five year old on Halloween. Following the story is a worksheet for getting ready to speak up about your friends drinking or drug problem.There is space on the back to print local numbers for help such as AA, NA, Al-Anon or the school counselor.
2. Worksheet: Friendship: Challenge the BS: this is a two sided worksheet that helps challenge the belief system of what a real friend is. This allows a teen to draw the bottom line in relation to their friends when their friends are doing risky things.
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the PDF files you'll need the Adobe
Reader (free) .
BoysTown National Hotline
1-800-448-3000
This line is not only for parents of young men, but the young men themselves. They provide counseling and other programs for a variety of family issues, drug abuse being at the top of the list.
Adventures in Parenting:
FREE pdf book
A no-frills approach to parenting from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). The RPM3 guidelines aren’t meant to be just another parenting “how to,” telling you what to do. Instead, RPM3 separates the useful information from the not-so-useful.
Online Comic Book Overboard
Drama on alcohol abuse
Comic books don't work with adolescents but are great for preteens. Use this with the 9 to 12 year olds.
What's your anti drug?
A special eight-page supplement announcing what stands between America's youth and drugs. Developed by kids for kids, over 500 creative submissions were generated through national youth-serving and educational organizations.
Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents:
A research-based guide for parents, educators, and community leaders.
This edition, includes information about key factors that place youth at risk for drug abuse, guidance for planning drug abuse prevention programs in the community, and is FREE of CHARGE: Spanish-language version.
To order, visit the NIDA Web Site. Or call (NCADI) at (800) 729-6686, (800) 487-4889 (TDD), or (877) 767-8432 (Español).
State Profiles of Underage Drinking Laws
This section of the APIS Web site provides State-by-State
summaries of laws and regulations related to underage drinking and
access to alcohol. For each State, summaries are provided for eleven
policy topics that are particularly relevant to underage drinking.
The Science Behind Drug Abuse
This collection of lessons from NIDA can be used in the home or classroom. Lessons include: Brain and Addiction; Anabolic Steroids; Ecstasy; HIV, AIDS and Drug Abuse; Marijuana; and Nicotine.
http://teens.drugabuse.gov/parents/index.asp
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)6001 Executive Boulevard
Bethesda, md 20892
Phone: 301-443-1124
Website: http://www.nida.nih.gov
State Profiles of Underage Drinking Laws
This section of the APIS Web site provides State-by-State summaries of laws and regulations related to underage drinking and access to alcohol. For each State, summaries are provided for eleven policy topics that are particularly relevant to underage drinking. To view the summary for a given jurisdiction, click on the appropriate part of the map or select a jurisdiction from the drop-down menu.
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition
Information in Spanish, too
This site contains an index, information about inhalants, inhalant prevention campaign, FAQs, how to contact NIPC, and information about NIPC. In addition they have some great posters you can get.
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