Helping Youth with Mental, Physical, & Social Challenges: Youth with Alcohol & Drug Addiction: Escape from Bondage

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 18% o people between the ages of twelve and seventeen currently drink alcohol (nearly one in five teens). Twenty percent of teenagers ages twelve to seventeen (one out of five teenagers) and nearly 54 percent of young adults ages eighteen to twenty-five have used marijuana. The abuse of cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy, and prescription drugs continued to rise in 2002 in both age groups. Despite decades of educational initiatives and prevention programs, teens are still smoking, drinking, and doing drugs. This book will help you understand why.