Teen Drug Rehab - Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
Additional factors increasing the probability of involvement with abusable substances are:
• Too little ongoing supervision from busy, uninvolved, immature or irresponsible parents.
• Schools in communities with substantial drug and alcohol abuse behavior among students
• Parental use of alcohol and addictive medications
• Significant stress in the household
• Extended family members with addiction problems
• Psychiatric problems such as depression and attention deficit disorder.
Detecting and confrontingdrug and alcohol abuse in teenagers is an obligation for parents who are informed about the pressures facing today's adolescents. Drug and alcohol use and abuse place tremendous burdens on our educational, legal, medical, and social service systems. Alert and responsible parents constitute perhaps the most powerful force for solving this growing problem.In terms of less immediately apparent but still very costly damage to the community and society drug and alcohol abuse and addiction arrest the development of personality. Generally, those who study and treat addiction concur that cognitive and emotional growth cease with the onset of involvement with drugs and alcohol . Thus the individual who begins abusing alcohol at sixteen will maintain the maturity level of the sixteen year old well into chronological adulthood.
Parents who have concerns regarding teenage drug and alcohol abuse are advised to view the following list of symptoms associated with this behavior
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