What to Do If your Teen is Drinking
Alcohol use is, sadly, not uncommon among teenagers. So what do you do if you find your teenager has been drinking? Here are some steps you can take. 1. Educate Yourself First, it’s good to know the facts of teenage alcohol use. Over 4,300 deaths among underage youth have been caused by excessive drinking each […]
What to Do If Your Child is Addicted to Their Screen
In an age where children have almost 24/7 access to the computer, tablet, or phone, it is easy for the screen to monopolize their time. What does digital dependency look like, and how do you handle it if it occurs? 1. Evaluate The signs of digital dependency can be easy to spot. For example, your child […]
How To Help Your Child With Internet Addiction
Addiction is one of the hardest struggles of many young adult lives, and it has become sneakier than ever before. Now, addiction does not always look like drug dealers or underage drinking, it can look like something as harmless as being on the internet more often than is healthy. Here we will go over simple […]
How to recognize and understand the severe consequences of drug abuse
A first step in drug awareness and prevention and protection against drug abuse (http://www.drugabuse.gov/), is to know what drugs are, how they change your behavior and what makes them physiologically and physically addictive. A “drug” is a common name used for a substance which chemically influences performance, has intoxicating effects or is used in medicinal […]
