If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too. - Virgil Miller Newton

It was evident that the treatment program’s building was a place where miracles happen.

Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity.

Our teenage “druggies” are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference – marijuana – is not addictive.