Book Reviews About Drugs And Teens
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Book Reviews About Drugs And Teens
Addiction:
The High That Brings You Down
This book discusses various types of addictions and their symptoms, the trauma of living in an addicted household, and the support available for families battling this problem.
The presentation focuses on drugs and alcohol, but also touches on other addictive behaviours in an abstract way.
Addiction The High Drugs and Kids:
How Parents Can Keep Them Apart
This book offers such specific recommendations that it is a godsend to parents of teenagers. Exactly what to watch out for, how to help your kid get off drugs, how to help your kids STAY off drugs. In effect, how to be a better parent! The practicality of this book is its strength.
Drugs and Kids Highs!:
Over 150 Ways to Feel Really, Really Good
....Without Alcohol or Other Drugs
Author Dr. Alex Packer tells teenagers to say yes to drug free ways to get a rush, alter consciousness, find serenity, and feel out of this world with HIGHS!. Unconventional? Yes. Irresponsible? NO! The book's humorous approach may be off-beat, but it's on target when it comes to reaching young people.
Highs! Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts:
A Review Of The Scientific Evidence
You might want to read this if you are interested in marijuana, or want to discuss marijuana with your kids, but do not have enough facts to begin.
This is not propaganda put out by anti-drug freaks, it is a scientific study of the facts. If you need to talk to your children about marijuana, and have them respect your opinion, get the facts, not the hype.
Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts Saying No Is Not Enough:
Raising Children Who Make Wise Decisions
About Drugs and Alcohol
Shows how you can be persistent, even penetrating, while remaining friendly and supportive. The most impressive aspect of his book is that he is not offering theories. He is making detailed, practical suggestions that he himself has worked out and tested many times over. They have proved their effectiveness.
Saying No Is Not Enough Smack
Like so many teenagers, Tar and Gemma are fed up with their parents. Tar's family is alcoholic and abusive, and Gemma feels her home life is cramped by too many restrictions. They run away in search of freedom.
For a while, everything is parties and adventures, but slowly Tar and Gemma find themselves growing more and more dependent on heroin, whose strict mandates are even less forgiving than those of the parents they fled.
Smack (softcover) Smack (hardcover) The Family Context of Adolescent Drug Use
Also published as Journal of chemical dependency treatment, v.1 no.2. The focus is on the family as the most positive force in the prevention of adolescent drug use. Contributors emphasize prevention by educating and strengthening families instead of the traditional efforts based on rehabilitation. No index. Acidic paper.
---Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
The Family Context of Adolescent Drug Use The Shelter of Each Other:
Rebuilding Our Families
Dr Pipher focuses on families' strengths and resources, and refuses to label them dysfunctional. Often, we simply need to rethink our use of time and technology. For me, reading this book was like taking a deep, calming breath and seeing my precious family in a new light.
The Shelter of Each Other