Teen Drug Addiction Part 1

Teen drug addicts are on the rise and is one of the predisposing factors is the refusal of parents and the school systems. A problem with addiction is easily tolerated in the inner cities as a byproduct of the difficult living conditions.

Admitted to the suburbs from affected and it is difficult for the parents and school systems, there is a problem at all and therefore get everyone who sees it differently. In our local Regional High School is a student assistanceCounselor and only in the last year they institute random drug testing for all students. Prior to drug testing was reserved only for the participation in sport. If a child tests positive for drugs or alcohol, the child faces mandatory suspension.

After his return to school of the child 2-3 times with the Student Assistance Counselor and then again life as if nothing has happened. I personally have parents that the school under the taskrequested that their child will be tested at all. Well-meaning teachers often look away when they presented with signs of a child under the influence. This happens especially if the teenager in question is not a problem in the class.

After I had a conversation with the Student Assistance Counselor, he confirmed what I know for some time. The parents are in denial about the drug problem. Each year, beginning in high school, they run a program on drug useAlcohol and awareness of the parents. Identified in a school population of more than 1100 students only a handful of parents. This is true despite the fact that there have been several heroin overdose to the death of the students in the region.

It seems that some parents actually buy the beer for their minor children with the condition that each must have a drink this evening to stay and not drinking to drive. Perhaps they draw false comfort from the fact that theyControl of the situation. When children feel free to drink at home, they will drink it is not necessary, outside the home.

The teenager must break, hopefully the right ethical decision, even though it may sound good, the law on drinking at home, it would not be in order, the law in other situations, such as breaking experiment with drugs, drink driving, speeding etc.. It is unfair that they should bear the burden of these conflicting messages.
Given the factthat they are teenagers, they have not always act as if their parents could hope for. Teens are so great for this problem, black or white.

Teen drug abuse is almost always in part because this kind of rejection. A school system sees the benefits of not carrying a heavy drug or alcohol problem within the framework of their students. The negative impact of such a problem would lead to a worse assessment of the school system as a whole. This helps the managementto not turn a blind eye when a least a very short-sighted one, to the actual problems with drug abuse is experienced by the students.

Teen drug addiction and teen addiction as a whole is a far-reaching and complex subject. It needs to be answered on many different levels. The fact that should be the parents of adolescents and the school system, which is heavily involved in its growth, the adults in this situation, at least a spark to work more unified effort to beon behalf of young people. Perhaps it is time that both of them in this difficult situation look with open eyes. Teen drug addiction can not be prevented but we must at least try to make every effort to young people a better choice for themselves.

The Disease of Addiction

In 1956, the American Medical Association (AMA) said that addiction to alcohol and other drugs for a disease. The American Psychiatric Association (APA) was followed by the AMA, in 1960. Addiction to AOD is considered a disease of the fulfillment of the following criteria:

Primary: The disease exist in and of itself. (But obviously, in addition to other diseases.)
Chronic: Do not go, heal spontaneously, or adopted.
Progressive: In the course of time gets worse.
Manifests symptomatically: Can the way a person in the physiology, behavior and lifestyle will be diagnosed.
Fatal: untreated, will lead to death.
Treatable: Good medicine, therapies, and lifestyle changes mean that the ability to live without abusing the substance.

Development of addiction begins with the voluntary choice to use drugs. No one starts They hope to be an addict, but how to use over a long period of time, to control the use proportionately reduced.

Who is first a voluntary user to a compulsive and obsessive drug users or addicts. A steadily growing number of scientific evidence suggests that the transition occurs from voluntary user addicts through a combination of processes, including the influence of a number of changes in brain neuro-transmitters (brain chemicals), which by repeated> Drug abuse.

Are due to changes in brain structure and function to the development and expression of the dependence of fundamental importance, it is a brain disease - a disease of the brain that translates into obsession and obsession with the drug.

We have finally learned that we can not separate mind and body. We understand that separate biology and behavior. Addiction prove this link. This physiological behavior view of addictionare bringing a new drug problems of our society needs? First, the fact that addiction is a disease of the brain is not a victim to the addict without responsibility.

Addiction begins with a decision to use drugs (no one thinks we can) be addicting, and the addict has been actively involved in their own treatment are working for them.

But we need to do to the moral dilemma that the addict has been overcome as a result of their own behavior, and sick with the brainDisease if it is there.

The addiction is a disease of the brain helps explain why people need to be treated, why the majority can be exercised not only by the power to stop, too.

They literally a changed brain. Because addiction is a complex bio-behavioral disorder, which are the development and expression of tightly woven into the social context, addiction treatment will inevitably many variations and techniques, and sometimes medication and behavioral therapies.

Asa brain disease, addiction is much more complicated than with a lot of drugs. Addiction has wide range of medical, behavioral and social consequences, the ability to affect almost every area of life and society function.

Thus, the treatment is not only the absence of drug use, it must restore the individual to fully functioning system in the family, the workplace and in society overall.

The best treatment combines medication, behavioral changesTherapies and psychosocial services needed in various combinations, as is appropriate in individual cases.

That she had disease of the brain helps us understand and explain why untreated addicted offenders as high post-prison recidivism rates of both drug use and crime.

If left untreated, the disease returns to the previous weight almost immediately after it released into the community.

On the other hand, the initiation of awell assessed, individualized treatment plan has to be very effective, and consider numerous studies have shown that even a single treatment sequence can dramatically later crime and substance abuse are reduced.

These facts seem to be a national trend, both the health and public safety approaches in dealing with offenders addicted to blend. Examples include diversion to treatment programs, drug courts and prison-based treatment programs.

A combination ofResearch, physicians, psychologists, and Certified Addiction Counselors are on the rise of success in treating the disease, monumental. If society can overcome the stigma associated with mental illness and addiction in particular, how it is misunderstood by leprosy, cancer and other diseases that with proper funding, addiction to a general, successfully treated ailments.