Heroin Addiction Story – Parents’ Perspective #2 | My Treatment My Choice

Heroin addiction story – parents’ perspective #2 | My Treatment My Choice – Elizabeth was devastated to discover that her twin boys were both addicted to heroin. Here she tells their story of becoming heroin dependent, of trying to s…

Why It's Harder Than Ever for Teens Today: Is Self-Esteem at an All Time Low?

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I am not sure how, but I know that teens need our help. We all … It's time for schools to build confidence as well as brains, for parents to talk about these issues instead of worrying over the symptoms, whether it is alcohol, anorexia or drug …
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Tackling unruly behaviour early tied to less drug abuse in teens

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The programme included social skills training for the boys at school, which helped promote self-control and reduce their impulsivity and antisocial behaviour, as well as parent training to help parents recognise problematic behaviour in their boys and …
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Publishers Weekly: Best New Books For The Week Of August 12, 2013

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Beam, herself a former teen runaway and sometime foster parent, paints sympathetic but clear-eyed portraits of everyone impacted by the foster-care system: biological parents who lose their children because they are deemed unfit to care for them, or …
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