The same tactics used by treatment centers to treat adults with addiction problems usually do not work on teens. The very idea of being expected to do the same thing as an adult is going to be an instant “turn-off” to a teen having problems with drug addiction.
Teens usually become addicted in slightly different ways than adults. Opportunity, availability, and social situations can all play a part in teen addiction. For this reason, teen addiction recovery is going to require different strategies.
The way in which a teen is even approached about receiving or asking for drug treatment is going to be different from that involving an adult. Oftentimes, teens do not really have a choice as to whether or not they wish to enter an addiction program.
Court officials may order teens to seek rehabilitation care, or they may have placed themselves in a life-threatening situation that, once resolved, made it necessary for parents or guardians to have the teen put into an addiction program. If either of these are the case, the first strategy that will need to be implemented is one to break through the hostility and anger that the teen will feel at even having to be there.
Treatment centers in Louisiana know this, and implement different ways to employ these strategies. Individual and group therapy may be utilized, at first with others in the facility suffering from the same addiction or who are there under similar circumstances. Later on, family counseling sessions are included in the program.
We can help you find a treatment program for your addicted teen that will help him or her effect a life change. The sooner the fact that a problem exists is acknowledged by both the teen and loved ones, the sooner we can start using our strategies to help everyone.
Please contact us at 1-800-559-9503, or visit our website at http://www.drugstrategies.org. Let us put our strategies to work for you.
