Underage Drinking | Drug Use Prevention
Problem Teens | Teen Help | Parents Searching the Internet
Problem teens can send parents to the Internet in search of help – whether it’s with their teen’s sudden attitude change, dropping grades, suspected substance misuse or withdrawal from the family. The following is a guest post by Sue Scheff, author, parent advocate, and founder of P.U.R.E. (Parent’s Universal Resource Experts, Inc.), an organization helping…
Read MoreThe French Don’t Have Underage Drinking Figured Out, Either
Contrary to popular opinion, the French don’t have underage drinking figured out, anymore than does the United States, Great Britain, and a host of other countries around the world. Americans (and may other cultures) have long believed the French have it figured out when it comes to all things related to drinking alcohol — especially…
Read MoreScreening for Underage Drinking
Screening for underage drinking – how do pediatricians do it and what can we learn from their approach? NIAAA (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) has developed a two-question screening tool to help pediatricians broach the often difficult subject of drinking with their patients. And, while it is for pediatricians, the PDF is well…
Read MoreStress and the Developing Brain
Stress and the developing brain – the impact of the chronic stress a child experiences when living with undiagnosed, unhealthily discussed substance abuse [something I refer to as secondhand drinking / drugging] can have a significant impact on the developing brain. To this point, Bruce S. McEwen’s September 21, 2011 article, “Effects of Stress on…
Read MoreSecondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD): Understand | Treat | Prevent – Break the Cycles
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) – how does understanding it lead to prevention and treatment of substance abuse, addiction, alcoholism, underage drinking and | and/or underage drug abuse? In other words, how does it help break the cycle? Secondhand Drinking | Drugging (SHD) Explained There are several entry points to the disease of addiction (whether…
Read MoreCoping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging as a Young Person Can Cause a Young Person to Wire Unhealthy Coping Skills
Secondhand Drinking | Drugging – when a young person is “forced” to cope with a family member’s ongoing drinking or drugging behaviors, it can actually change how that young person’s brain wires. This, in turn, means it can actually change that young person’s life. Impacts of Coping With Secondhand Drinking | Drugging In previous posts,…
Read MoreBrain Development | Mental Illness and Underage Drug | Alcohol Misuse
Brain Development | Mental Illness and Underage Drug | Alcohol Misuse – yes – there is a strong, deeply important connection between these three that must be understood. For this reason, I’m sharing a video by Pathway to Prevention that Cathy Taughinbaugh of TreatmentTalk.org shared on her website recently. The messages it contains are extremely…
Read MoreBreakingTheCycles.com Celebrates 3 Years!
by Lisa Frederiksen I wrote my first blog post for BreakingTheCycles.com three years ago, today! Since then, I have expanded my work to include workshops and presentations, consulting services, books, and collaborative efforts focused on 21st century brain and addiction-related research in an attempt to help all concerned better understand that addiction, its causes (aka…
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