Underage Drinking | Drug Use Prevention
Introducing The Addict’s Mom Website and Group
The following is an introduction to a new website, The Addict’s Mom, and Facebook group, The Addict’s Mom group. Out of Brokenness, an Idea Was Born Barbara Theodosiou, founder of the Women’s Business Mastermind Group is the mother of four children two who struggle with addiction. One who has been clean for several years and…
Read MoreHelp for Underage Addictions
Help for underage addictions can take many forms. I want to bring the following to your attention Teens Addiction Anonymous – a program based on the 12 steps but one that was “created by teens, with teens, and for teens.” It’s like and different from the AA or NA 12 step programs. According to their website,…
Read MoreAdolescent Major Depression – Some 2 Million Experienced It in 2011
Adolescent major depression is often masked or minimized, yet the consequences of it going untreated can be devastating. The opening sentence from Melissa Healy’s April 29, 2011 Los Angeles Times article, “Depressed Teens Mostly Struggle Alone,” reads: Some 2 million Americans adolescents experienced a bout of major depression last year, but only about a third…
Read MoreOxycontin in Pediatric Medicine
What about the use of oxycontin in pediatric medicine? Tim Cheney, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Chooper’s Guide, explores this question in this guest post. Choopers Guide is active in the recovery advocacy movement in the State of Florida and hosts an addiction treatment and addiction information resource site with over 30,000 treatment provider listings…
Read MoreMonitoring the Future Study Highlights Simplified in Infographic
The following infographic was brought to my attention by Robyn Schelenz, Home Health Testing, with this introduction: After the most recent National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded Monitoring the Future study overview came out late last year, we decided to convert the data from the study into infographic form. Dr. Lloyd Johnston, the Principal…
Read MoreThe First 3 Years of Life
The first three years of life on a blog about alcohol abuse, mental illness, addiction, secondhand drinking…? You betcha! The tremendous, far-reaching brain research being conducted as a result of the advances in imaging technologies, such as SPECT, fMRI and PET, is providing a better understanding of just how/why the first three years of life…
Read MoreThe Importance of Treating Mental Illness
The importance of treating mental illness cannot be understated – not only to relieve the symptoms of the mental illness, itself, but to thwart its role as one of the five key risk factors for abusing substances and/or developing an addiction. This program, “Los Angeles Patches Together Mental Health Care for Juvenile Offenders,“ on KQED’s…
Read MoreBrain Development Ages 12-25: Major Changes; Major Implications for Underage Drinking
by Lisa Frederiksen As a follow-up to yesterday’s post, “Teen Stress and the Substance Misuse Connection,” I thought I would repost one that I wrote in October 2009 and updated March 4, 2011. The connection between the two posts has to do with the potentially devastating consequences of underage drinking (or drug use, for that…
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