Saint Louis County’s Heroin Addiction

According to St. Louis County’s police department located in the state of Missouri, heroin overdose claimed the lives of 49 individuals in the past year.

St. Louis County police Chief Tim Fitch believes the problem has reached epidemic proportions with almost every race and social class succumbing to heroin, the popular and cheap alternative to other illegal substances with widespread availability.

The campaign “Curiosity + Heroin: Not Even Once”, a joint effort of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, St. Louis County’s Children's Service Fund and the St. Louis County Police Department have all been working closely together to educate the public on the detrimental side effects of using heroin. Furthermore, they have been identifying and arresting individuals who supply the drug in schools and neighborhoods across the county

The campaign has vowed to battle long and hard with heroin’s low costs, widespread availability and decreasing social stigma, in hopes of eliminating the heartbreaking causalities of heroin overdose within the next few years.

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Key Elements of Effective Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Program

Assessment and Treatment Matching; Inspirations Teen Rehab Programs conducts comprehensive assessments that cover psychiatric, psychological, and medical problems, learning disabilities, family functioning, and other aspects of the adolescents life.

Comprehensive, Integrated Treatment Approach. Inspirations Teen Rehab addresses adolescent’s problems comprehensively (medical, psychiatric, family, and environmental) rather than concentrating solely on curtailing substance abuse.

Family Involvement in Treatment; Inspirations Teen Rehab engages both adolescent and parents or caregiver and maintains close links with the adolescent’s family, home, school, and where necessary, the juvenile justice system.

Developmentally Appropriate Program; Inspirations Teen Rehab offers a program designed only for adolescents, therefore we understand the unique and rapid development that occurs during this phase.

Engage and Retain Teens in Treatment. Inspirations Teen Rehab Treatment Programs is known for its climate of trust between the adolescent and the therapist.

Qualified Staff. Inspirations Teen Rehab's Staff is trained in adolescent development, co-occurring mental disorders, substance abuse, and addiction. In addition our adolescent addiction treatment programs address the distinct needs of adolescent boys and girls (in individual gender groups) as well as cultural differences among minorities.

Continuing Care. Inspirations Teen Rehab Programs include relapse prevention training, aftercare plans, referrals to community resources, and follow-up.

Treatment Outcomes. In order to measure success and improve outcome, Inspirations Teen Rehab continuously work on treatment program evaluations, research and target new resources.

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How Personal Injury has Become a Social Phenomenon

Commonly recognized as a problem stemming from a psychological disorder, inflicting damage to oneself or in other words “self-injury” seems to have become more of a social trend than psychological issue considering the large population of people who use cutting as a form of expression and rebellion.

The act of “self-injuring” which emerged in the 90’s in rock and heavy metal bands was recognized as a way of expressing social identity and “disaffection from society”, as well as a way to support and identify with other members of such groups.

In today’s society, self-injury has become a popular activity among teens across the nation. Furthermore,  with the social stigma attached to “cutting” drastically decreasing since the 90’s, more and more teens are succumbing to self-injury.

Cutting is sometimes (but not always) associated with depression, bipolar disorder, eating disorders, obsessive thinking, or compulsive behaviors. It can also be a sign of mental health problems that cause people to have trouble controlling their impulses or to take unnecessary risks. Some people who cut themselves have problems with drug or alcohol abuse.

Cutting can be habit forming. It can become a compulsive behavior — meaning that the more a person does it, the more he or she feels the need to do it. The brain starts to connect the false sense of relief from bad feelings to the act of cutting, and it craves this relief the next time tension builds. When cutting becomes a compulsive behavior, it can seem impossible to stop. So cutting can seem almost like an addiction, where the urge to cut can seem too hard to resist. A behavior that starts as an attempt to feel more in control can end up controlling you.

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Teens and the Dangers of Social Media

A recent study published by Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse reported that teens who regularly accessed social profiling networks such as Facebook and Myspace were twice as likely to succumb to recreational drugs, twice as likely to consume alcohol and to smoke marijuana, and five times likelier to use tobacco after having being exposed to it via pictures, comments and blogs on popular social networking websites.

Furthermore, the study revealed that 40% of the teenagers had seen images or read blogs on other teens getting drunk or using tobacco, and roughly 70% of them reported logging on to a social networking websites on a daily basis.

Joseph Califano, former U.S Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, also founder of Columbia University’s National center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), strongly believes that "The relationship of social networking site images of kids drunk, passed out, or using drugs and of suggestive teen programming to increased teen risk of substance abuse offers grotesque confirmation of the adage that a picture is worth a thousand words."

Califano also believes that it is time for website administrators and all others whom benefit from these websites take responsibility and “deploy their technological expertise to curb such images and to deny use of their sites to children and teens who post pictures of themselves and their friends drunk, passed out or using drugs".


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Every parent has a dream for their child. As the child becomes a teenager, a parent’s dream can become a distant memory as the struggle with teen behavior and teen drug abuse takes over. Likewise, every child-turned-teenager has dreams for their future too. Although the teen may find it difficult to navigate through the peer pressure, media influence, academic stress and maturation stages, most teens still remember their dreams for the future. We must remember that every teen is still a child with a dream. Teen drug abuse and teen addiction can steal a parent and child’s dreams for their future. Inspirations Teen Rehab is a teen addiction treatment center working with families and teenagers to restore their dreams and save the lives of teens.

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Prescription Opiates in America

While prescription opiates are effective and crucial to patients with debilitating aches and pains, in recent years they have become a popular recreational drug among teens. Available at only a fraction of the cost of other popular mainstream drugs like heroin, prescription drugs are easy to find and relatively inexpensive.

In the U.S, prescription opiates are the second most abused drug after marijuana and in recent years the number of its victims, a large number being adolescents, has virtually multiplied.

Most teenagers turn to prescription drugs because they perceive them as less dangerous than illegal drugs. They see prescription drugs as saver than other illegal drugs carrying no stigma when compared to illegal drugs.

While early prevention has been statistically proven to decrease opiate addiction, parents can play a key role in preventing adolescents from accessing prescription drugs in the first place. Parents are expected to properly discard any left-over prescription medication left in their medicine cabinets and discuss the dangerous side effects of using such drugs, even if their child seems oblivious to such topics. Furthermore, considering the alarming statistics of “straight A” adolescents who wound up experimenting with prescription opiates and becoming addicted, families should not “assume” that their child will never make such an attempt, as this has caused many devastating situations with fatal endings.

We at Inspirations Teen Rehab understand the unique challenges of being a parent. If you have any questions, please know that we are here to provide you with support and guidance, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We welcome the opportunity to answer your questions free of charge about teen drug rehab, teen substance abuse, adolescent addiction, teen intervention, teen behavior, teen depression or other related matters.

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