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Renowned Psychiatrist Dr. John Sharp on Addiction, the Teen Brain and Early Intervention
Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Weâre thrilled to share the following video featuring Dr. John Sharp, a renowned psychiatrist, bestselling author and faculty member at both the Harvard Medical School and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
In this video, shot by Clio award-winning director Lori Hoeft, Sharp discusses the genetics of addiction, the developing teen brain and the importance of early intervention.
Sharp encourages parents to take action early. âYour role is critical,â he says. âYou can influence the behavior of your loved one. You want to continuously let him or her know how much you care and what your support can mean.â
Learn more about the teen brain and the steps you can take if you think or know your child is drinking or using drugs. For guidance, call our Toll-Free Parent Helpline at 1-855-DRUGFREE (1-855-378-4373) or visit Time To Get Help.
Want to hear more from Dr. John Sharp? Keep an eye out for his feature article on Join Together, coming out this summer.
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Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Ms. Szalavitz about her work. Following is the first in a four-part series. Here, Ms. Szalavitz shares her insights into how parents can better deal with their teensâ and young adultsâ drug and alcohol abuse problems.
JERRY OTERO: In your latest book, Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential â and Endangered ,you explore empathyâs startling importance in human evolution and its significance for our children and our society. Why is empathy essential, and how can parents help to instill it in their children? Are there any lessons here to learn for parents who are struggling to make sense of their teenagers and young adult childrenâs drug abuse issues?
MAIA SZALAVITZ: Empathy is critical for having a happy, healthy life because it affects all of our relationships and our health â physical and mental â to an enormous degree is determined by our ability to form strong bonds with others. The best way to teach empathy is to behave kindly: as one expert put it, empathy canât be taught, but it can be caught. However, kids need to learn to understand their own feelings well before they can understand those of others: good ways of helping them learn this are reading to them and asking them explicit questions about their own and other peopleâs thoughts and feelings in various situations.
Empathy is also important for preventing and treating drug problems. In terms of prevention, schools with warm atmospheres where kids feel part of a community have less drug use and less bullying, for one.
Also, part of the reason I got interested in the subject was that I saw how unkind so many counselors and treatment programs were to people with addictions. And there are all kinds of people out there advocating that being cruel is the only way to help. The data just doesnât support that â empathetic treatment is the most effective. And harsh treatment drives people away from seeking help.
JERRY OTERO: Â âKind Loveâ vs. âTough Loveâ, whatâs a parent to do about a teenagerâs or young adultâs substance use?
MAIA SZALAVITZ: There is no evidence that âtough loveâ does anything useful. Of course, you shouldnât buy drugs for your children or do things that will help them use easily and if they are a danger to you or your other children, you may have to have them live elsewhere â but donât put a child on the street with the aim of helping him stop using. It might do that â but it also might make a temporary problem into a permanent one by entrenching the street lifestyle and putting the child at greater risk for overdose, suicide and disease. If you need to cut a child out of your life, in other words, do it to protect yourself or others, not to help them. Thereâs no evidence that it does help and all of the evidence on treatment and intervention shows that kind, supportive, gradual approaches are more effective than abrupt, harsh, confrontational ones.
This goes back to empathy: if you want to help your child quit, you need to understand why they use and help them find other ways of getting those needs met. If the child believes you are on their side and will not place them in an awful place they canât escape and want them to feel good, not control them, you will be much more successful in motivating change. Itâs a lot easier for a kid to say yes to treatment if he knows his parents will back him up if itâs not right for him; a trial of antidepressants is much more easily done if the teen sees this as a way for her to feel better, not a way for her to be made compliant.
Check back next week for Part 2 of our Q&A, âFinding Treatment for Your Teen.â
Maia Szalavitz is a health writer at TIME.com and writes about addiction-related issues for The Fix.com . Find her on Twitter at @maiasz. Â In addition to the books mentioned above, Ms. Szalavitz previously co-authored The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love and Healing (Basic, 2007), and Recovery Options: The Complete Guide: How You and Your Loved Ones Can Understand and Treat Alcohol and Other Drug Problems (John S. Wiley, 2000).
Posted by Jerry / Filed under Books about addiction, Dealing with an Addicted Child, Drugs, getting help, parenting, Substance Abuse, tough love, Writing About Addiction / Comments: more
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Like so many, my family has been touched by addiction. Our heads constantly spun for years as we tried to find the way to fix the addicts we love so dearly. Cuisinart-head is a term borrowed from a family addictions consultant â it perfectly described my momâs mentality in the midst of my brother Chrisâs addiction. Her head swirled with the familiar stew of questions parents of addicts will know all too well:
Meds. Rehabs. The detox world tour. How can a mother desperate to help her son possibly make sense of all of this? Well, Mom tried. A discussion with one person would lead to another contact, and mom filled five notebooks with information. Chris may have gone through 12 facilities, but mom kept extensive notes on 25. She logged the 30 medications he was on over seven years and their associated side effects, along with notes from 28 providers she trusted. She called on any resource â published authors, researchers, psychiatrists, parents of other addicted children.
Mom was the super-case manager, addicted to Chrisâs addiction and the quest to find the right program, therapist, coach, approach that would save him. And Chris stood still, waiting for the next placement, or professional to meet with, seemingly unaware or unimpressed by Momâs frantic efforts to keep him alive. We want to expect different behavior from an addict in response to an outpouring of loving effort, but those who have experienced this ride know that that rarely happens. Cuisinart-head canât move an unwilling addict.
Addiction often causes this dynamic â a family consumed with information and plans for the addict and the addict unwilling/uninterested/unmotivated to change his or her behavior. For mom, research distracted her from her anger toward Chris, disappointment in his choices and frustration that he couldnât just âstop using and return toward a normal life.â Instead of confronting uncomfortable emotions, it was easier to obsess over how to solve the problem. This thought stew can become at least a coping mechanism if not an outright addiction unto itself.
Sadly but unsurprisingly, Momâs mental âspinningâ didnât solve Chrisâs addiction. It made her feel as though she was âdoing something,â and it did generate options but also created a lot of anxiety and second-guessing. Momâs hyper-focus on the details obscured the real loss she mourned: her dreams for her sonâs future. But we now know that distress over a loved one's future as a non-addict can consume the familyâs present with little result.
Thankfully, our story has a happy ending, and my brother is leading a productive, happy life in recovery.
Families often ask âWhat did it?â and the truth is there are probably a lot of factors â Chris was older, âsick and tired of being sick and tired,â financial support was cut off, his last treatment center was a good match with a strong young personâs AA community and focus on yoga and meditation.
Mom no longer spends her time in Cuisinart-head spells trying to fix him. A couple of years into the madness, my mom stepped back and realized this process could continue for years and went into individual therapy. She had a place with an impartial observer to share her fears for Chrisâ future, discuss her anger toward him and relay her concerns for my fatherâs health, which had been impacted throughout Chrisâ journey. Â My momâs therapist gave her the confidence to remain clear-headed in crisis and helped her manage her emotions in a healthy way, which improved her interactions with Chris and thoughts related to his care.
For those who struggle with Cuisinart-head now, I would encourage you to prioritize your physical and emotional health. My momâs research and calls werenât incorrect actions, but in isolation, they created an unhealthy obsession and belief that she could fix Chrisâ addiction by finding the perfect option for him. In her case, a therapist was able to provide guidance and a space for her to discuss what happens if none of her efforts worked.
I hope that you can find some hope in our story and that you call on resources in your local area. Share your story below, talk with a therapist or coach, attend Al-Anon or another peer support group, call The Partnership at Drugfree.org toll-free Parent Helpline (1-855-DRUGFREE) â seek out guidance from others to stop the spinning.
Posted by Arden O'Connor / Filed under Addiction, Dealing with an Addicted Child, Family members, Family Therapy, Finding Treatment, getting help, parenting, Patience, Recovery, Uncategorized / Comments: more
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
Although Valentineâs Day is typically considered a time for expressions of âromantic love,â itâs also a great opportunity to connect with your kids to let them know how important they are to you and how much you love them.
In my work on the Parent Helpline at 1-855-DRUGFREE, I often help parents figure out better ways to communicate with their teens and young adults. Having a meaningful conversation with your teen can be difficult, to say the least. Here are four tips to help get your child to open up so you can develop a better connection:
1. Ask âOpen-Endedâ Questions.
If you ask your child, for instance, âWhat have you been up to lately?â The typical response may be, âNothing.â However, by asking the question in a way that compels your child to respond with more than a one word answer, you are inviting him to interact with you in a more productive way. Example: âWhen you went out with your friends last night, who did you hang out with?â Avoid asking questions that only have yes or no answers.
2. Use Reflective Listening.
Mirror back what your child is saying to you. It allows her to clarify what she is saying and creates an opportunity for you to get clarification, too. For instance, your teen says, âUgh, every time I go out with Jenny I have to watch what I say. I hate when she asks me to go out with her!â You, as the parent, may respond, âIt sounds like going out with Jenny makes you frustrated.â This also helps your child feel heard.
3. Use Affirmations.Â
It means a lot to teens to know that they have done something right in their parentsâ eyes. Identify the positive things your child does and point out the times you respected his decision. It is important to recognize all the efforts your teen makes â big or small â on a daily basis. Acknowledging that it isnât so easy to be a teen today lets him know you may not understand everything that he goes through, but that you do understand his struggles.
4. Summarize.Â
This is helpful when your child needs to change a behavior. It also helps parents learn more about their childrenâs mixed feelings about a given situation and the reasons why they continue doing what they do. When summarizing, parents help their children notice their ambivalence, affirm it and encourage them to decide what is important to them. It is essential that you allow your child to create his own values and not instill your own.
By calmly summarizing the situation at hand (e.g. the need to stop smoking pot or to enter rehab) and accepting that your childâs initial reaction may be one of resistance, you are allowing him to take more control over his life. As a parent, you can affirm your childâs ambivalence by saying, âYouâre right, Trevor, going to rehab will mean you canât hang out with your friends this summer, but what will happen if you continue to drink and smoke pot in your senior year?â Or, âI hear you say that you donât want to sleep all day anymore and that you want to get back into bike riding. How do you think smoking weed has affected your energy level this past year?â
All in all, engaging with your child in a meaningful conversation is more likely to be productive than simply telling her what she should do for her future. The latter approach will, more than likely, not only elicit but also intensify your childâs resistance.
So, celebrate this holiday of love by taking time to talk to your kids about whatâs really important. For more tips on what to do once you get the conversation going, please:
Wishing you and your family a very happy (and talkative) Valentineâs Day.
Posted by Jerry / Filed under Confronting Teens, Family members, parenting, Patience, Uncategorized / Comments: more
Monday, January 28th, 2013
Earlier this month a few of us attended a Lunch ânâ Learn event at CASAColumbia with Maia Szalavitz, a neuroscience journalist who covers health, science and public policy. She discussed the theme of her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids (Riverhead, 2006), an exposé of the âtough loveâ business.
The talk prompted us to revisit and share what we at The Partnership at Drugfree.org know about boot camps and wilderness programs for troubled and/or addicted teens.
First, it is important to note that boot camps and wilderness programs are not included among the levels of care defined by the American Society of Addiction Medicine. Although you may have heard success stories or read about the benefits of boot camps, we strongly suggest you look very carefully into any boot camp or wilderness program before sending your teen for substance abuse treatment.
According to a government report, these programs are not subjected to federal oversight, and there have been thousands of reports of neglect and abuse at privately owned and operated boot camps and wilderness programs for troubled youth.
Ms. Szalavitz explained that a person with the disease of addiction is already in a lot of pain. To get better, that person doesn't need more pain and abuse, but rather a kind and supportive approach to treatment. One that's comprehensive, respectfully addressing the individual's physical, emotional and social issues. One that makes the person feel better.
We suggest that if you are seriously considering a boot camp or wilderness program, you check with the Better Business Bureau for any complaints against the program. You should also call the program and ask a lot of questions, including:
1) What specific substance abuse and mental health licensing and accreditation does the program have? (If the providers are not licensed, do NOT send your child to the program.)
Remember, addiction is a serious health issue and requires appropriate treatment by licensed professionals so that addicted persons can learn how to manage drug and alcohol problems, how to handle relapse and how to live a life free of drugs and alcohol.
For more questions to ask programs when looking for treatment for your child, here are some helpful resources:
To find the best assistance option for your child with an alcohol or drug problem, see our Treatment e-book.
To connect with other parents about your childâs drug and alcohol problem, join our online support community at TimeToGetHelp.drugfree.org.
To speak to a trained specialist, call our toll-free helpline at 1-855-DRUGFREE (1-855-378-4373).
Have you sent or considered sending your child to a boot camp or wilderness program? Comment below to share your thoughts or experiences.
Posted by Intervene Staff / Filed under Addiction, Books about addiction, Dealing with an Addicted Child, Finding Treatment, parenting, Scare tactics, tough love, Treatment, Uncategorized / Comments: more
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
As a little girl, Mom and Dad promised I could be anything I wanted â police officer, teacher, journalist â and that no matter what, my life would be a good one if I followed my heart. Hard work, dedication, honest effort and the Golden Rule were required but, according to my folks, a small price to pay for happiness.
Their words, spoken in earnest to their oldest child, fell across my ears and under my radar as the years passed. Conceptually, I referenced the ideas from time to time, but my world was much too complex to be reduced to old-world, Horatio Alger charm.
I did work hard. I did get the coveted college degree from the prestigious undergrad program. I did land the first job in my field two weeks before the commencement ceremony. I did return to my hometown in triumphant victory as the first of my motherâs kin to brandish the sheepskin of higher education.
I landed back in my suburban city, however, anything but free. I was a 23-year-old, full-blown alcoholic with a lot to show for my school career but little recollection of how I got it.
Mom and Dad never warned me about following the family lineage into alcoholism. Maybe they didnât know that because addiction coursed through both sides of my family, my reckless party-girl college life might lead me across a line into alcoholism.
After all, they didnât know about the college âaccidentsâ that sent me to the hospital emergency room with severe ankle sprains (from falling while drunk) or the night that friends thought I was having a heart attack after a bad combination of alcohol and over-the-counter Sudafed (I was trying to stay awake to study).
They certainly didnât know about the countless occasions of school parties with booze and sex, times I canât remember, times Iâm lucky to have survived with no pregnancies or STDs.
Now a college grad, I was a âresponsibleâ adult with a job and rent due each month. But my drinking was escalating to the point where nearly every morning I swore to any and all gods that I would not drink âlike thatâ again. I would try harder not to drink so much and I would make sure I ate something that would coat my stomach, something besides beer nuts and pretzels, so I wouldnât be so sick and hungover the next day.
If I could only control my drinking! I convinced myself that if I concentrated more on things like being more aware of my surroundings and paying more attention to the descriptions of the cars I got into and watched where we drove, then I wouldnât find myself in the unhealthy situations that seemed to happen with increasing regularity.
If I were more responsible, I would stop waking up in strange places with strange people, or so I told myself.
However, I was a young alcoholic woman with a career and a bucket full of insecurities. I was desperately trying to fit in while setting myself apart from the crowd. I thought myself intellectually superior to the people with whom I interacted, yet I seldom felt worthy of anyoneâs attention. In my mind, I was a big shot traveling the country on an expense account, yet on the inside I felt like I deserved none of it. I worked hard at not letting people really see who I was because I was deathly afraid that if they did, they would wouldnât like me, and I really needed for them to like me. I desperately needed their approval. Years later, I would realize that my insecurities were covering a thick layer of fear, most likely a fear of rejection that stemmed way back into my childhood.
So I continued to cover my intense loneliness with a party-girl persona. I felt a vague sense of irritation, sort of like when youâre walking on the beach and a small pebble gets lodged in your shoe. You try to continue walking but ultimately end up with a big blister and a hurting foot.
I kept drinking, but a growing restlessness gnawed at me. Instinctively, I knew something was wrong, but I didnât know what until a God-moment on a spring day in 1991. I was driving to a conference for work, through a small town where an old friend lived.
She had been like a surrogate mother to me when I was growing up, but after she and her family moved away from my hometown, we dropped contact for many years. Something made me stop my car on that day and call her.
She was delighted to hear from me, and we had lunch. As we caught up, I listened to her describe her sonâs battle with an addiction to drugs and alcohol.
Her son had just been released from a treatment center. I knew him well and wasnât at all surprised to hear that he was messed up with drugs and alcohol. Because I had partied with him, I figured he would eventually end up with a problem. I had seen him in really bad shape.
My friend â my surrogate mom â planted two seeds in me that day. When she spoke about her sonâs behavior and the resulting consequences, I realized with a sudden force that every time I got into trouble, alcohol was involved. That was the mustard seed she planted.
The bigger seed, one more like that inside a peach, was what she said about his spiritual awakening, about how he came to understand that he was powerless over his addiction and that by admitting powerlessness, he was able to embrace a new way of life that included the awareness that God was guiding him to become a better person.
My friendâs son admitted he couldnât control his life, and with that admission, he gained a new way of living.
Iâll be forever grateful that my old partying buddy connected with a higher power, because his connection led me to mine.
My spiritual connection â what I call being âplugged inâ â is my lifeline in this day-to-day crazy world.
Grace led me to sobriety; I havenât had a drink of alcohol since May 20, 1991.
Iâm learning at a turtleâs pace that while I am powerless over my addiction, I can control the thoughts, feelings and attitudes that lead to the decisions I make. And so long as I donât drink alcohol, I have a much better chance of recognizing the difference between what I can control and what I canât. Remember all the things I mentioned that my parents failed to warn me about? Turns out I had quite a build-up of resentment toward them. Thankfully, long-term sobriety and an ongoing spiritual connection healed that resentment.
I believe that staying plugged-in to a God current that flows freely and readily whenever I express the willingness to connect has made all the difference to me; it allowed me to heal strained relations with my parents before my mom died in 2010.
Until that time, I think the little girl in me still blamed them for not fully preparing me for adult life. Now I know they did the best they could; family talks about alcoholism and addiction were taboo in the 1970s.
Todayâs family culture offers so much more hope for teenagers. While parents still urge their kids to shoot for their dreams, they also season their conversations with realism about the future.
One thing hasnât changed:Â Parents still want the best for their children, and kids still want their parentsâ approval. Add a good amount of honest conversation about drugs and alcohol, and you have a solid basis for a successful, drug-free future.
To read more stories of recovery or to share your own, please visit the The Hope Share.
Posted by Beth Wilson / Filed under Acceptance, Addiction, Alcohol, Dealing with an Addicted Child, Family History, Family members, Forgiveness, parenting, Recovery, Self-reflection, Taking Care of Yourself, Uncategorized, Warning Signs / Comments: more
Wednesday, December 19th, 2012
My son Alex shoplifted to support his addiction. Needless to say he got caught several times. The first few times, when he was a minor, we'd get a call to come pick him up, and he'd get a ticket, and we'd pay a big fine and take him to court services for his probation and take him to a psychologist. This went on for a couple years.
When he turned 18, he was no longer a minor, and with his record they'd take him to jail. He'd make that phone call from jail, "Please come and bail me out. I'm never going to do this again." Off we'd go. After a while, this was getting expensive. And my wife Darlene and I were not learning our lessonâand, by the way, neither was our son. We were doing the same thing over and over, and our son was doing the same thing over and over. Nothing was changing. He'd make the same promises, we'd take the same action, and we couldn't understand why he kept using!
This is where the idea of âdetachingâ and setting boundaries started with us. We decided we werenât going to pay bail next time.
But it wasnât easy. As a mom and dad it is very hard to think of your child sitting in jail. In Jackson County, MO, jail he witnessed a person getting stabbed. The food is universally bad at jails, and without money on your books, you can't even get a toothbrush to brush your teeth. He had food stolen from him and at times had to fight to keep it. He spent two days in solitary confinement for defending himself against an inmate who attacked him. Some jails put the mentally ill in with criminals such as rapists and murderers, and then put them all in together with the drug addicts. It makes no sense to me.
It's hard to think of yourself as a loving parent when you know that for just a few hundred dollars you could get your child out of those situations. You wonder: if I don't pay the bail, am I really a loving parent? But eventually, the day comes when you don't pay. We once let our son sit in the âJohnson County, KS, Resortâ for 11 days because we wouldn't post a $50 bond. Sounds mean doesn't it?
This is about detaching with love and not enabling. Your boundaries must match your values. It works for us this way. Overriding all is the value that we love our son. When you sit down to think about and discuss boundaries, this goes at the top of the page. Every single boundary is tested against that value.
Another value we hold close and taught our kids is that stealing is wrong. Stealing carries consequences, and it should. Bailing him out removes or minimizes the consequences. Contrary to our values, we were bailing him out. We hated what he was exposed to in jail; however, we had established a pattern: he got caught, he called, we jumped with cash in hand.
Darlene and I sat down and determined where we would go and where we would no longer go. This began to help us establish our boundaries. You canât cover all of the possible situations; you just cover what you can and know that once you learn how to judge behaviors and fight the instinct to enable by rescuing, the exercise becomes easier and more natural.
Once boundaries are determined, you must sit down with your child, an addict that may or may not be high at the time, and explain where you will no longer go with him. In fact you can even start each sentence with, "Because we love you…â and then, for instance, âwe can no longer bail you out of jail. All of your life we taught you that stealing was wrong and you know that in your heart, so we cannot support your actions by bailing you out of jail when you do something you have been taught all your life is wrong. I hope you understand this and can accept our decision."
For each boundary we had discussed, the conversation went like that. Our son hated it when we turned off the TV and asked him to sit down at the table to talk. This satisfied our need to tell him of our expectations, and it told him what to expect from us. Yes, he still called, begged, pleaded and cried from jail, but what we had been doing in the past didn't work and was bad for us and him. We had to change the rules, but that didn't mean we loved him less. It meant we loved him more because it hurt us terribly to let him sit in jail.
Even with his begging and pleading we were still able to sleep at night and have a moment of down time. He was in jail and we knew jail was safer than being on the street scoring and shooting more heroin. We then began to see jail as "protective custody."
We detached from Alex's crimes and actions; we did not detach from him. We still loved him, took some of the $10-for-10-minute collect calls from jail. On those calls we always ended by saying that we loved him and asking him to please help himself. We were doing all we could and all we knew to do. Detach from the actions, crimes, drug use, lying and every other terrible thing a drug addict does to himself and others. Love and support the person inside, not the addiction controlling the life.
Today, Alex is two-and-a-half years sober.
Posted by Ron Grover / Filed under Acceptance, Addiction, Codependency, Confronting Teens, Dealing with an Addicted Child, Enabling, Family members, parenting, Patience, Substance Abuse, tough love, Uncategorized / Comments: more
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012
My son stopped using over two years ago. For seven years he was addicted to drugs and, by the end, was a heroin addict. Today he is drug-free and working to put his life back together.
There are countless books and websites about addiction, rehab and recovery. Most of them are filled with valuable information that helps both the addict and the parent. I wonât discredit anything on these sites or in these books, but I want to share what I have learned about being the parent of an addict in recovery, not from reading but from experience â no long-drawn processes or lengthy explanations. These are just some realizations that seem to help me.
2. Addicts dig deep holes for themselves. Contrary to what you may think, filling the hole is faster when only one person has a shovel. If you help to shovel, it will take longer to fill the hole.
3. Forgiveness is for me. The sooner I understand, the faster I heal.
4. âBelieveâ or âdoubt?â I choose to believe. Have you ever had someone tell you that they believe in you?
5. Normal is right. âFragile. Handle with Careâ is not stamped in big red letters on a child in recovery. To stop using drugs or alcohol means he or she wants a normal life again.
6. Nagging, suspicious looks and reminders of past mistakes really irritate me. Addicts in recovery probably donât need them either.
7. His recovery is his to manage. I know that for the last seven years, he hasnât been able to manage ANYTHING. But we all have to learn and begin someplace.
8. I love you. That is a reassurance we ALL need.
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Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
The festive lights that started twinkling along 5th Ave â despite it seeming as if we had only just gotten to this side of Halloween â werenât enough of a sign for me. It wasnât until after my familyâs own Thanksgiving dinner, when I loosened my belt a notch, that it hit me. The holiday season is upon us, in full swing â with all of its candles and lights, connecting with family and friends, eating and drinking, gift-giving, celebrating, and of course partying.
It is also a time when your teenagers will be out of school and facing much less structure and supervision. School breaks typically mean lots of freedom and time spent socializing with friends, not to mention the increased access to alcohol that comes with the parties. Many work hard to find positive activities for their teens during the holiday break from school. But even so, a lot of teens are left seeking something to do with the idle time in between. And because boredom is a major reason teens give for substance abuse, even the most trustworthy can be at risk.
Additionally, The Brookline Parents Education Network reports that New Yearâs Eve, in particular, can be a difficult night for parents to set guidelines for their teens. More than any other event, this night is associated with drinking. Many kids have internalized a dangerous and false message: âUnless you are at a large gathering of friends drinking, you are a loser.â They put pressure on their parents to let them attend unsupervised parties and sleepovers. Parents may be out with their own friends and less vigilant about supervision. And children may be less forthcoming about where they will be, and with whom.
Here are 5 tips parents can use to keep their teenagers safe during the holiday season and into the New Year:
â¢Â   Be sure your teen understands that drinking under the age of 21 is illegal and unacceptable.
â¢Â   Know where your teen is going, and ask lots of questions. Who will be there? Will alcohol or other drugs be present? Will adults be home? Do those adults tolerate drinking in their home?
â¢Â   Discuss with your teen situations in which he or she might be offered drugs or alcohol, and plan ways for how they can respond. Be sure your teen knows to call 911 immediately if a partygoer needs medical attention. For tips on how to talk to your teen and for strategies he or she can use to decline drugs or alcohol, see our Parent Talk Kit.
â¢Â   Make a plan with your teen for how he or she will get home. Remind him or her never to get in a car with a driver who has been using drugs or drinking. Provide money for a taxi or public transportation if it is available and safe in your area. Make an agreement with your teen that if he or she calls to ask for a ride, you will come immediately (no matter where or what time), with no questions asked until later. Here is a contract you and your teen can use to establish a clear understanding of acceptable actions.
â¢Â   Be a role model, and know that your behavior is a major influence on your child. Drink responsibly, and donât abuse alcohol or drugs. Never drive under the influence of alcohol or any other intoxicating substance. Never get in a car with a driver who is under the influence. Safeguard your prescription medicine and only use it as directed by a doctor.
What challenges or concerns are you facing this holiday season? Please use the comments section below to share any ideas or questions you have about keeping your teens safe through the New Year.
On behalf of the Partnership at Drugfree.org, I wish you and your family a safe holiday season and a happy, healthy New Year.
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Thursday, November 15th, 2012
As a parent in recovery, I look at my childrenâs faces every day and I wonder and worry.
I wonder, with everything I know and everything Iâve learned, will I be able to save them from the dangers of alcohol and drug abuse? I wonder about the âgeneâ and the fact that I know there are many in both my family and my husbandsâ that have it.
I worry about my childrenâs environment: the drug pushers, the âcoolâ friends and doctorâs writing careless prescriptionsâall out there potentially giving my beautiful, innocent daughters something that could threaten their lives.
I worry about the things I say, the things that happen on the playground at school. I worry about the things that could happen to them emotionally that could somehow predispose them to being receptive to actually trying a prescription drug to get high, and that that one time could be all it takes.
I guess I could wonder and worry about so many other things happening to them, but because I am in recovery myself, this is the one thing that is closest to my mind.
If I tried all of it, why wouldnât they?
All I can do is hope and pray that if they do try it and they do get hooked, they get help. Maybe it would be the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) just like I did.
AA has changed my life so profoundly and on so many levels. It has put the tools for living and happiness right into the core of my being.Because of it, the black hole exists no longer, and my need to fill it with substances is gone. I have been given the ability to walk through life with faith and hope and trust.
I just hope that I can transmit some of these values and the inner peace I feel to my children and that I do whatever I can to prevent them from using drugs and alcohol. But if they go down the path of addiction, I hope they too will find sobriety and serenity just as I did.
I hope that by teaching them to allow themselves to feel their feelings and to always speak up when something is going on and to try not to hold the emotions in, they will be aided in keeping away from drugs. Maybe teaching them that negative emotions are not bad and should not be discarded or ignored or seen as something to distract ourselves from will be useful. I hope that by saying to them that negative feelings are as important as positive feelings and that in our lifeâs journey we have to learn to deal with both sides of the coin.
I wonder if any of this will help.
And I wonder, are there other parents in recovery out there that are thinking about the same things? If so, please share.
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so it took her 4 years of marriage to a woman, and 9 years of carpet munching to realize she's a dyche?
She couldn't be straight with a Face like that . Only another fur trader would like it
Gay people get over it we do not care if you are Queer as long as you and the rest of the world are good people.........that's all we care about.
TMZ, so what is the big news... so she is a lesbian, if she was straight would you be making a big announcement? Gees.. get a life people.
I keep hearing that you were born gay and only can be turned out for sexual reasons. But it seems as if what I call the gaying up of America is in full swing. I actually don't have a problem with gay people. as long as their agenda isn't pushed on me, but every day I see in the entertainment industry and on tv that the gay agenda is more and more being pushed on the children and teens who feel, whether they are gay or not, is something that can be tried without any regard to their own beliefs. That is called experimenting, and if one becomes gay because of the sexual nature of these tryouts, then being born gay is not the only way. Whether you think it is right or wrong is simply an opinion, and if you want, you too can become gay. All you have to do is drop your panties and get busy with someone who has the same plumbing as you. You don't have to be born that way anymore.
Yep, had no idea who she is. Yep, could not care less that she's a lesbian. I just can't figure out why these people think we want to know who they sleep with.
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Game 4 of the Grizzlies-Thunder series was the final playoff game of the day on Saturday, and the stakes were high. The Thunder were playing to even up the series at 2-2 and reclaim home court advantage while the Grizzlies were playing to take a commanding 3-1 lead. If you read my Game 4 preview on here, you would know that I said that the first six minutes of this game would tell us a ton about how the rest of the game was going to go. Well, the first six minutes indicated that the Thunder weren't fazed by the previous two games, which indicated that we were in for a long battle like the previous two games. They came out swinging, but fortunately the Grizzlies were there to answer. The Grizzlies clearly planned to continue to do what they have done this whole series which is to pound the rock inside and make things miserable for Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook. The Thunder on the other hand were trying to get Durant and Westbrook in a good groove while also getting their role players involved. The first quarter ultimately went more the way of the Grizzlies. They had an 18-15 lead at the conclusion of the first quarter in a low scoring affair which meant that the tempo favored them and that they weren't letting Durant and Westbrook get comfortable, holding Durant to just 2 points in the first quarter.
During the second quarter, the Thunder started to get some space from the Grizzlies despite a lack of contribution from Durant. The key was that their role players started to step up. I personally felt that in order for the Thunder to win this game they needed their role players to give Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant support, so naturally this help from their role players was huge. In Game 3, the Grizzlies outscored the Thunder bench by more than 20 points, but this time it was the Thunder's bench outscoring the Grizzlies' bench 22-7, and as would be expected the Thunder took the lead into the half by the score of 42-35. However, the real question at the half was whether or not their bench could keep this up. Especially since Durant had only 3 points at the half and Westbrook only had 7.
The Thunder got off to a nice start in the 3rd quarter by getting Kevin Durant to hit a wide open three and they extended their lead to double digits. However, Marc Gasol went on a 6-0 tear by himself to cut the Thunder to lead back to 7. J.A. Adande reported at halftime that the Grizzlies' coaching staff told him they were hoping to get their bigs to be more active, and Marc Gasol certainly helped contribute to executing that game plan. However, it wasn't enough to cut into the lead any further and the Thunder got the lead to balloon back up to 12 largely due to the Grizzlies' ineptitude to get anybody other than Gasol going. As a matter of fact, Gasol, who had 21 points at the end of the 3rd quarter, was the only member of the Grizzlies in double figure scoring at that point. So while the plan to get Gasol going was working, nobody else on the Grizzlies was able to get going. Mike Conley was especially ineffective, having just 2 points through the first three quarters.
However, in the 4th quarter, the Grizzlies started to grind and slow things down, which helped the Grizzlies to chip away at the Thunder lead. Tony Allen (a.k.a. the Grindfather) was the key to the comeback through his defense and some big buckets down the stretch. A three by Mike Miller cut the lead to one and then a Tony Allen bucket gave the Grizzlies a 74-73 lead during the Grizzlies' following possession to cap off a 14-4 run. The Grizzlies didn't panic when the Thunder got a big lead. They continued to do what they do which is play stingy defense and look for easy buckets inside. It's a formula that works in the long-term, which is why it's called "grinding". However, as was appropriate, the Thunder found a way to tie things up and force overtime after things appeared over after a Marc Gasol jump shot. After watching three games of this series, only a fool would think that the Thunder wouldn't fight until the very end.
In overtime, things started eerily similar to the way things started in the last overtime. Kevin Durant hit a jump shot to start things off, and then Mike Miller came back with a clutch three. The Grizzlies once again showed zero fear when it came to playing Kevin Durant. In addition, Russell Westbrook missed a horrible three-point attempt and Zach Randolph made the Thunder pay with a jump shot. The Grizzlies looked like they were going to go up 3-1 at this point. However, the Thunder somehow found a way to win thanks to Reggie Jackson and the Grizzlies' inability to hit some shots. Jackson finished with 32 points and 9 rebounds off the bench and made his free throws in overtime to seal the 92-89 win for the Thunder.
The takeaway from tonight's game is that this is going to be a long series. I said in today's game preview that the Grizzlies didn't need to win this game and that the Thunder did. I picked the Grizzlies to win this series in 7, so all things are going true to form as I thought they would. However, that doesn't mean this loss doesn't hurt for the Grizzlies. They had a chance to go up 3-1 and they failed to finish the job. But if there is anything we know about the Grizzlies, it's that they will fight hard and continue to grind until the very end. The Thunder clearly are still very uncomfortable with the Grizzlies' style of play which is why I still like the Grizzlies' odds at winning this series.
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The Nashville Predators rounded out their defensive corps for the 2013-2014 season by signing blueliner Anton Volchenkov to a one-year deal.
Signing the 32-year-old veteran to beef up the blue line was expected after comments made a few days ago by Nashville General Manager David Poile. The GM explained that he wanted to add another dynamic to his relatively young defensive depth chart before the start of the new campaign.
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Nashville Predators President of Hockey Operations/General Manager David Poile announced today that the club has signed free-agent defenseman Anton Volchenkov to a one-year, $1 million contract.
Volchenkov, 32 (2/25/82), has suited up for 650 games for New Jersey and Ottawa (where he played with both Matt Cullen and Mike Fisher) since the 2002-03 campaign, posting 126 points (19g-107a) and 424 penalty minutes. Since 2005-06, the 6-1, 225-pound blueliner has the second-most blocked shots among all skaters (1,395) and the 10th-most hits among defensemen (1,313). The Moscow, Russia native has also appeared in the playoffs seven times in 11 NHL seasons, advancing to the Stanley Cup Final on two occasions – in 2012 with New Jersey and 2007 with Ottawa – and to Game Seven of the Eastern Conference Final as a rookie with Ottawa in 2003. In 85 career postseason contests, Volchenkov has 17 points (4g-13a) and 58 penalty minutes.
Ottawa's first selection, 21st overall (first round), in the 2000 Entry Draft, Volchenkov is a two-time Olympian, representing Russia at the 2006 Torino Games and 2010 Vancouver Games, and has a pair of international gold medals to his credit, winning the 2009 World Championship and 2002 World Junior Championship.
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