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(Note: "S" - a teen in treatment writes about her experience of inpatient treatment.) ( Full post )

Access to Prescription Drugs Easier for Teens

from JoinTogether.org
August 14, 2008 ( Full post )

PDFA: Teens Using Drugs to Cope with Stress, Parents Underestimating Pressures (2)

August 5, 2008 ( Full post )

PDFA: Teens Using Drugs to Cope with Stress, Parents Underestimating Pressures

August 5, 2008 ( Full post )

Once we recognize that thoughts are empty, the mind will no longerr have the power to deceive us."
~Khyetse Rinpoche ( Full post )

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment to improve the world."

--Ann Frank ( Full post )

Adults Provided Free Alcohol to 40 Percent of Underage Drinkers, SAMHSA Report Finds

July 21, 2008 ( Full post )

Tobacco

Bush Administration Opposes Federal Regulation of Tobacco
July 24, 2008 ( Full post )

"Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth."
--Chief Seattle ( Full post )

Addiction and Mental Health Belong On the National Agenda

(from JoinTogether.org) ( Full post )

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."
--Ram Dass ( Full post )

Sen. Webb Calls for New Drug-Policy Approach, Focus on Treatment

Sen. Webb Calls for New Drug-Policy Approach, Focus on Treatment
June 23, 2008 ( Full post )

"Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control. We can love and care for others but we cannot possess our children, lovers, family, or friends. We can assist them, pray for them, and wish them well, yet in the end their happiness and suffering depend on their thoughts and actions, not on our wishes."
-Jack Kornfield ( Full post )

AA Attendance by Teens Linked to Improved Outcomes

Research Summary ( Full post )

"I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
Gandhi ( Full post )

"....one night of what I thought would be fun."

When I first started using drugs, it started off with alcohol and weed. Then I was introduced to XTC and coke.
I always thought that nothing bad would happen to me and I wouldn't get addicted. Little did I know that in 2007 I would be driven to the hospital by my ex-boyfriend.
I was told I took 5 XTC, 2 methadone, 8 beers, and a hit of pot. As I was arriving at the hospital I had actually died twice. The moment I arrived I had a seizure and my heart stopped beating. I already had not been breathing for an unknown amount of time due to the amount of vomit in my lungs blocking the air to my brain.
They quickly revived me, but shortly after that my heart stopped again. This time it took over an hour to get me back. I was placed on life support and put into ICU with constant attempts at draining my lungs (which took nearly a month to finish).
My whole family drove here because they told them I was going to die that night, that I had less than a 5% chance of living. My brain had very minimal activity to the point they told my family I would probably be a vegetable even if I lived.
With the help of all the doctors I slowly recovered and finally woke up from my coma. My family says I could not talk or respond to pain for many weeks as my brain slowly healed.
A month later I got to the point I could leave ICU and they put me in a home where I had constant care since I could not even move a finger, let alone use the restroom or hold my own head up.
Currently after some physical rehab I can talk, stand up with help, am getting close to walking and I can even pull myself into my dad's truck.
I want to share with everyone the dangers that no one thinks of and the struggle that I am dealing with over one night of what I thought would be fun. ( Full post )

Energy Drink Consumption Predicts Risky Teen Behavior

(from JoinTogether.com) ( Full post )

AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN FIVE SHORT CHAPTERS

by Portia Nelson ( Full post )

"To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind."

- Seng-T'san ( Full post )

"Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit."
- William James ( Full post )