Category: Teenage Drug Addiction
Just a few days before her graduation in 2008 from a Long Island high school, cheerleader and National Honor Society member Natalie Ciappa died. She overdosed on heroin. The sad fact is that Natalie’s death is not an isolated incident…
A 13-year-old upstate New York boy has died of an apparent overdose after taking the powerful prescription painkiller Oxycontin. A painkiller that is claiming more and more lives lately. Police say Matthew J. Kappelmeier was found dead in the backyard…
By Mark Gregston It used to be that older teens were most susceptible to drug experimentation, but kids today are experimenting earlier and earlier. In fact, 10- to 14- year-olds are now the most likely to begin experimenting with one…
Family Therapy with Drug Abuse and Addiction The role of the family when dealing with drug abuse and addiction is a huge one. Family therapy can have a huge impact in conquering the drug abuse and addiction that has affected,…
Teen Drug Addiction Drug addiction is a powerful disease, this is no secret, but when teenagers become addicted to drugs, it’s much more serious. Drugs affect a teen’s body in different ways, but when teens have to deal with drug…
