Teens and Young Adults

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The Importance of Self-Care While Your Child Is In Treatment

December 5, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

“Addiction is a family disease.” If your child is struggling with a substance use disorder, you may have heard this before. Addiction is viewed as a family disease partly because the substance use affects the whole family. As a result of the family member’s substance use, loved ones experience emotions including fear, worry, anger and sadness. They also experience issues such as lack of trust, codependency, unhealthy boundaries, enabling and difficulty enforcing rules and consequences. All of these emotions and issues are difficult to go through on one's own. However, many parents feel isolated as a result of the stigma [...]

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Breaking Holiday Tradition: Help Accommodate Your Child’s Substance Use Disorder

November 22, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

Every family has their traditions for the holidays, and many people don't like to break tradition. But what if your child has a substance use disorder? Suddenly, going to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving becomes a questionable decision because of the pain medication in her bathroom cabinet. You wonder whether Uncle John’s homemade eggnog should be turned away at the door. After all, there is alcohol in eggnog. You even start to question whether getting together with your extended family is a good idea at all because of the questions your child will be subjected to, like, “How are you? No, [...]

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Teen PHP Coming to Phoenixville and Lansdale

October 3, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

Starting this fall, Rehab After Work and The Light Program will offer premier co-occurring and mental health partial programming for adolescents ages 14-18 in Phoenixville, PA and Lansdale, PA. The program, designed to offer addiction and psychiatric care, will run Monday through Friday for six hours each day and is specifically designed to actively engage teens in treatment through a variety of therapeutic and holistic treatment modalities. Counselors will utilize CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing techniques with their clients, while certified therapists and reputable outside agencies will conduct holistic treatments focused on mindfulness such as art therapy and yoga. These [...]

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Signs Your Teen Needs Alcohol Treatment and the Benefits of Outpatient Rehab

May 23, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

Many view underage drinking as a rite of passage. But the truth of the matter is that underage drinking is never okay. Teens can go from having a few drinks to abusing alcohol very quickly, causing serious and long-lasting damage. Alcohol substance abuse is most predominant in teens. Learn when to seek help, the signs of teen alcohol abuse, and how adolescent rehab can effectively treat addiction. When Do I Get Help For My Teen? Is your child experimenting with, binge drinking, or dependent on alcohol? Enlist a professional to help you figure this out. Even if you think it’s [...]

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Six Helpful Tips for Teens to Avoid Relapsing During Spring

May 17, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

Spring is here, the school year is wrapping up…it’s an exciting time for teenagers! But if you’re in recovery from substance abuse, triggers can pop up much more often. You need to be careful about how you celebrate the end of another school year and the way you spend your summer. Read these six tips on how to avoid relapsing at the end of the school year into summer while still having fun and hanging out with friends. Know Your Triggers Whether your triggers are certain crowds of kids, places teens hang out, or a Saturday night when you [...]

Teens Use Drugs instead of Cigarettes and Alcohol for Stress Relief

March 15, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

The youthful and alluring smoking ads of the 20th Century have since been replaced with stark warning labels and new restrictive laws. The traditional path of gateway drugs from cigarettes to alcohol to hardcore drugs has become much more limited in scope for this generation. Instead, young people are going straight to marijuana and more intense and highly addictive drugs. As parents, it’s important to understand the way your teens are influenced by current society and drug culture. According to recent surveys, cigarette smoking has declined among high school students from 15.8 percent in 2011 to 9.2 percent in 2014. [...]

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5 Signs Your Teen is Dealing with Addiction

March 1, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

The teenage years are the prime time to experiment with drugs and alcohol. Teens spend a lot of time away from their parents, in new places with new people. But it’s not all fun and games. Many poor behavioral habits among teens can be attributed to addiction to drugs and alcohol. In fact, drug and alcohol use is highly common among victims of teen suicide. Your responsibilities as a parent include caring for and developing a personal relationship with your child, but sometimes relationship-building can be difficult, especially if your teen is using drugs or alcohol. How can you [...]

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Six Ways to Help Your Teen Get Back on Track After a Drug or Alcohol Relapse

February 16, 2016|Teens and Young Adults|

Addiction is a lifelong struggle. After completing drug or alcohol treatment, teens are still at risk for relapsing. In fact, 40 to 60 percent of people relapse after treatment. But there is hope! Read on to learn six ways you can help your teen get back on track once he or she has relapsed. What is a Relapse? A relapse is when a recovering addict returns to using drugs or alcohol with the same frequency as before he entered treatment, influencing him to give up overcoming his addiction. A slip is when a teenager uses a drug or drinks [...]

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What Adults and Children Should Expect During Transition from Childhood to Adolescence

December 29, 2015|Teens and Young Adults|

We often reflect on our childhood with fondness and even jealousy. How simple life was—crayons and coloring books, playing make believe, intense games of tag with neighborhood kids. Our troubles consisted of skinned knees, unwillingly eating our vegetables and facing the school bully. The transition from childhood to adolescence shoves us off the path of simplicity into thorns of the unfamiliar, evoking fear and anger as we experience changes physically, emotionally, cognitively and socially. During this time, it’s easier to get tangled in the weeds of addiction as a form of escape from our new reality, especially without support [...]