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

Jason dreams of rock stardom - but heroin addiction threatens to ruin his career, not to mention destroy his chances to get together with the girl he loves. Jason also has to cope with his alcoholic mom, addicted friends, and a crazy drug dealer. It seems the more Jason tries to get life together, the worse it falls apart. Can he find a way to escape the pull of heroin before it destroys all his dreams?The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration estimates that 18 percent of 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 use of cocaine, heroin, Ecstasy, and prescription drug abuse 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.