A Letter to Promoters of Teen Help

I am contacting you because you have a link on your Web site directing readers to "Teen Help," which is a storefront for World Wide Association of Specialty Schools and Programs (WWASP). I am confident that when you learn more about that organization, you will reconsider your decision to display that link. WWASP's activities, in my opinion, constitute a most dangerous form of educational quackery.........more

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Safe Choices for Troubled Teens

Helen Taylor didn’t feel like she had much choice. A registered nurse and mother of five, Taylor was caring for a sick parent and studying for a law degree when her seventeen-year-old daughter Grace* was raped at a party and fell into a deep depression. (Grace is not the daughter’s real name). Taylor, who lives in Thousand Oaks, California, knew she couldn’t handle Grace’s needs by herself. She took Grace to a therapist, who recognized the overwhelming nature of Taylor’s other responsibilities and suggested that Taylor place her daughter in residential....................... more

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Boot Camp For Kids

The near-total absence of governmental regulation and oversight of locked residential "treatment" facilities where children are warehoused closely parallels conditions in the pre-FDA days of the Wild West when itinerant pitchmen peddled fake remedies to the desperate and the gullible. But there is one important distinction. When people became ill as a result of using some homemade brew that proved toxic, the peddler who sold it would have his cart smashed and be lucky to get out of town alive. The "troubled-teen" industry runs no.............. more

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Chrystal Meth Addiction Help, Crystal Meth Abuse Recovery and Treatment Center

Methamphetamine is a powerful central nervous system stimulant. A synthetic drug, Meth has a high potential for abuse and dependence. It is illegally produced and sold in pill form, capsules, powder and chunks; it can also be smoked, snorted or injected. The fast, powerful high tapers off quickly, leaving.......... more

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CNBC From A Daughter Of Privilege To A Crystal-meth Con

West Vancouver, Edmonton - For months, the twentysomething woman, her big dog and her male companion were quiet fixtures on Rockend Place, a private preserve of luxury homes with million-dollar views of the Pacific Ocean.
Then the rumours started to fly about the couple.  And the police came, arresting the man and woman in their vehicle as they drove through the ultra-affluent West Vancouver neighbourhood, and uncovering the tools of a sophisticated identity-theft racket after searching the $1.6-million home..........more

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CNBC Meth Dangers Chronicled

Whistler and Pemberton RCMP officers say the crystal meth "wave" hasn't hit the two towns, but community members should know what to look for so they can identify methamphetamine labs and dump sites if the deadly............. more

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Beating an addiction to meth - February 2001 METH'S DEADLY BUZZ - MSNBC_com

Until a few years ago, methamphetamine was considered a regional problem. Largely confined to the West Coast and Southwest, it was off the radar of federal drug offices in Washington, D.C. But as the drug swept into rural Midwestern communities in the mid-1990s, catching hospitals and treatment centers unprepared for its devastating effects, steps were taken to gain a better understanding of meth’s toll on the body. Methamphetamine, like cocaine, is a powerful stimulant. It produces physiological changes similar to the fight-or-flight response — it boosts heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and body temperature. Some people use it for the brief, intense “rush” it produces when smoked or injected. Others use it for functional reasons — as an appetite suppressant to lose weight or as an energy-booster to enable them to work more. When snorted or taken orally it doesn’t produce an intense “rush” but rather a “high"............................more

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CNN Column Escape From The Fairy Tale

If you can remember back to the summer of 2005, when The Post offered a 12-part series, Not My Kid: Crystal Meth in Your Community, which tackled the subject of methamphetamines in order to educate the community, you will no doubt remember Beth( Part 9: Seeing through crystal clear mythology ), and her story of an addict who had plenty to tell us about the drug, the lifestyle and the manufacturing of crystal meth.
With her permission, I want to........................more

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CNBC Grant Promotes Drug Awareness

A $7,500 provincial government grant will assist Langley School District teach Grade 7 students drug awareness. 
Langley Township Mayor Kurt Alberts on Monday presented the cheque to Leslie Klein, program co-ordinator for the school district's Community Methamphetamine Response Funding Program. 
The grant will pay in part for the drug and alcohol worker who will teach students about the dangers of methamphetamine. 
Alberts said the Grade 7s were felt to be the most vulnerable, since they were making the transition from elementary....................................more

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CNN Students Learn About The Dangers Of Crystal Meth

Meth Is A Scary Addictive Drug. 
That was the message a pair of police officers gave to Grade 7/8 students at D.A.  Gordon last week. 
OPP Const.  Aaron McPhail gave a presentation about crystal meth and its dangers, while his colleague Special Constable Randi Hull of the Chatham-Kent police service also spoke and answered questions for the inquisitive students. 
McPhail said the presentation is to give students information so they can make good choices. Interposed in McPhail's presentation of what..............................more

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CNN The Shocking Truth About Tasers

Police Announce Controversial Stun Gun Program
When Nick Scott heard about the Fredericton police department's decision to spend $40,000 on 12 new Tasers, it brought back some bad memories.
"Getting shocked with a Taser is like somebody injecting anxiety into your heart," said Scott, a 23-year-old sociology student at St.  Thomas University.
In 2001, police tasered Scott a dozen times while he attended an anti-globalization protest in Halifax.  Like other human rights activists, he has serious concerns about the new toys taxpayers recently purchased for.......................more

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CoverStoryTeen Talks About Life After Rape

Sometimes, journeys take people on paths of self-discovery. Often, these journeys may be spiritual in nature. And sometimes, the journeys come unannounced and unplanned, but when completed, they test the mettle of those who unfortunately must travel them. Hopefully, they pave the way so that others do not have to take similar paths.This is the story of a journey. Unfortunately, this is a journey that begins with the rape of a young.........................................more

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CNN Schools Need A 'fourth R' To Help Curb Drug, Alcohol Abuse

Expert Says Teens Need To Learn How To Have Healthy Relationships
There's no magic or easy solution to the problems of drug and alcohol abuse by area teens, a drug awareness forum in Chesley was told Tuesday. 
Developing meaningful relationships is key to adolescent well-being, David A.  Wolfe, a professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Toronto and director of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Prevention Science, said. 
Wolfe believes so strongly in the importance of healthy relationships for teens with their peers, teachers and especially their parents that he and his.................more

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Defendant John Bundy allegedly ‘threatened and harassed’ them; Parents in Thayer lawsuit seek protective order

ST. JOSEPH — The parents of a boy who died at a northwest Missouri military-type home for troubled teens have asked for a protective order against the home’s owners. Victor and Gracia Reyes alleged in recent court filings that John Bundy, who owns Thayer Learning Center with his wife, Willa Bundy, made an unannounced visit to the Reyes’ home in Santa Rosa, Calif., in July and “threatened and harassed” the Reyeses. The motion for a protective order, filed last week in Buchanan County Circuit Court, said John Bundy and his son Isaac Bundy encouraged the Reyeses to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit against..............more

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CNN - Justice report finds no CIA link to crack cocaine trafficking

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A long-awaited Justice Department report released Thursday found no link between the Central Intelligence Agency and the trafficking of crack cocaine in the United States. The exhaustive, 407-page report was prompted by a series of articles by the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. The articles alleged that a San Francisco-based drug ring sold crack cocaine in Los Angeles and funneled profits to CIA-trained Nicaraguan Contra rebels in the 1980's. The Contras, with some U.S. government support, were attempting to...................more

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Judge Rotenberg Center investigated for alleged cruelty to children

The Judge Rotenberg Center (JRC) in Canton, MA, uses cruel "aversive therapy" on children with autism, depression, and mental retardation. It's the only school in the US that allows painful shocks of children, sometimes tying them down for long sessions of shocks. "Hot-saucing", extreme food deprivation, and other corporal punishments are routine and frequent. None of these "aversive therapies" have ever been proven to work with the mentally ill children who are forced into the JRC. Most JRC "clients" come from New York, where "aversive therapy" is ...............more

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Police Investigate All 22 Texas Youth Prisons for Inmate Abuse

Police went to 22 Texas Youth Commission facilities and the agency headquarters Tuesday to investigate claims that young inmates were sexually abused and that agency officials covered it up. Jay Kimbrough, appointed by the governor to look into the allegations at a West Texas youth prison, said the officers would conduct interviews at the prisons and halfway houses, secure equipment and collect documents if necessary.He also issued a warning to agency employees. "If you are part of this.................more

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My unforgettable experience as a guest of the state

The L.A. Times put out an ugly story in 2000 about a Gladiator School labeled "Harder Time: California Youth Authority Shifts from Rehab To Brutality." I thought that was good work and about time the world knew about what really goes on behind the walls. Good job! However, I wanted to share my own personal experience, a more realistic account of Gym T.D. (temporary detention) in Paso Robles, California - "Wine Country," as they call it. I served in the Youth Authority in '93-'97, mostly in...........................more

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Troubled Teen News & Articles Boarding Schools -Troubled Teens

Why do parents of ADHD teens don a glazed, semi-sarcastic gaze when someone tells them, "I think I can help your child?" It's very likely because the parents have already struggled through years of conflict, meetings with teachers and counselors, attempts at drug intervention, etc., and have not seen any lasting "cure" for their child's ills. Many of these parents have long ago moved past the quitting stage, and are now simply warriors. They're accustomed to the battle. It's what they do.Working in the troubled teen industry affords an.....................more

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Teenage ADD Teens with ADHD BoardingSchools-TroubledTeens_info

If you have a teen struggling with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), you know that he/she faces a difficult, though not insurmountable challenge. In order to achieve his/her full potential, he/she will need help, guidance, and understanding from you, from therapeutic professionals, and from teachers.Sadly, many of the problems associated with ADHD and ADD arise as a result of interactions between the troubled teen and authority figures. Defiance, survival-motivated manipulation, and conflict with teachers, parents, and others sometimes become standard behaviors, intertwined with..............................more

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Hythiam Expands PROMETA(R) to Fort Lauderdale

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 2006--Hythiam, Inc. (NASDAQ:HYTM), a healthcare services management company that licenses the PROMETA(R) treatment protocols designed to treat alcohol, methamphetamine and cocaine dependence, announced today that it is expanding in the south Florida region, and has licensed PROMETA to Fort ................more

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Troubled Teen Transports by Boarding schools for Troubled Teens

Parents who have made the decision to place their teen in a treatment center or other intervention program often overlook the value of professional transport services. In an effort to save money, or to remain as involved as possible, they place themselves and their troubled teens in potentially explosive situations. Not only can perilous situations be avoided, but by employing an escort professional numerous benefits can .........................more

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