Visions Adolescent Rehab – Our Staff – visionsteen.com Adolescent substance abusers differ from adults in many ways. Their drug and alcohol use often stems from different causes, and they have even more trouble projecting the consequences of their use into the future. In addiction treatment, adolescents must be approached differently than adults because of their unique developmental issues, differences in their values and belief systems, and environmental considerations (eg, strong peer influences). The use of substances may also compromise an adolescent’s mental and emotional development from youth to adulthood because substance use interferes with how people approach and experience interactions our staff understands this.

 

Teen addiction: Pune schools rise to the challenge

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The recent 'chillar party' bust at River View hotel in Koregaon Park, where 800 underaged adolescents were being served alcohol, has inspired a slew of activities including workshops and de-addiction drives by doctors and rehab centres targeting …
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'Twilight' saga teen idol brings positive message to Cherokee youth

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His mission was to convince an auditorium full of mostly adolescent girl “Twilight” fans, waiting impatiently for him with readied flash cameras and video recorders, that he had something deeper to say — some useful advice to convey, derived from a …
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What I Inherited

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It first hit when I was an adolescent and would take to my bed for the whole weekend, then blossomed into a full-blown nervous breakdown when I was 19. I began seeing a … My four stays in the psych ward and five stints in rehab don't look so bad now …
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