How You Can Help Your Addicted Teen with No-Rescue Parenting
Over the past two decades, incidents of overprotective parenting have risen. Also called helicopter parenting, this approach involves parents swooping in to save their children from any potential harm. Unfortunately, many teens grow up without developing problem-solving and coping skills. When parents constantly intervene and save them, young people feel as if they are unable […]
Negative Stigmas Associated with Therapeutic Boarding Schools for Troubled Teens
Boarding schools serve as a popular recourse for parents who are desperate to correct delinquent behavior in their adolescent children. But popular fiction and stereotypes have created a negative image of these facilities that creates apprehension in parents. While it would be naïve to completely discount potential areas of concern as any industry has examples […]
The Timeline of Narcotic (Opioid) Abuse
After the death of Prince, the media’s attention turned to the abuse of opioids and opiate-based drugs. Preliminary tests show that he overdosed on an opioid-based substance, which lead to his death. His high profile demise and its likely cause have highlighted opioids and the large problem of opioid abuse — a global problem, according […]
Fentanyl: Why You Should Be Terrified
Each opioid prescription pain medication from a long list of many has the potential to become addictive. The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 78 people in the United States die every day from opioid addiction. In 2015, 253 overdosed on Fentanyl in the state of New Hampshire alone . Fentanyl can kill users, which […]
The Five Most Dangerous Misconceptions About Prescription Drugs
When it comes to prescription drugs, you need to be fully informed as ignorance is definitely not bliss. As a parent, you want to avoid potential health hazards so that you can protect you and your teen. Avoid these misconceptions to keep your prescription use safe and effective. 1. Doctors prescribe prescription drugs so they […]
Parents: Your Teen’s Friendly Neighborhood Drug Dealer
As the number one cause of accidental death in the nation, drug overdoses might often be due to the easy access that many adolescents have to their parents’ medicine cabinet. Many of the drugs include opioid-based prescriptions. Instead of looking for street drugs, teens pilfer their parents’ medicine cabinet. An Overview of Opioids Narcotics, including […]
Parents Cheat Sheet Narcotics (Opioids) – Navigating The Painkiller Epidemic – Infographic
Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States. The root of the painkiller epidemic may be that 60% – 70% of teens say that the home medicine cabinets are one of their easiest source of drugs. We have compiled a cheat sheet of the most commonly abused prescription drugs to […]
Understand the Three Strikes Law and How It Affects Youth
Prison laws have evolved significantly over the centuries. In some ways, the punishments have become lighter and in other ways they’ve become harsher. One law that’s been developed over time is the “Three Strikes” statute, which is a major prison legislation in several states, primarily California. What Is the Three Strikes Law? The Three Strikes […]
7 Creative Family Bonding Activities You’ll Never Forget
When the whole family gets together for activities, the result is non-paralleled. Parents, children, and siblings grow closer together as they build healthy relationships that will keep the family together. One of the most amazing benefits of family bonding time is the effect on the individual. Through specifically planned activities, each family member feels closer […]
Talking Point Tactics to Break Ground with Your Defiant Boy
You likely have either experienced your own battles with a defiant child or observed another parent’s public struggle. A quick Google search of the phrase “child defiance” will register approximately 21 million hits, showing the enormity of the problem. When experts themselves don’t agree on this subject, what should you do as the parent of […]
