New Resource – Teens At Risk: Addiction and Depression

Teens at Risk: Addiction and Depression DVD

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Resource #: TRAD964W

Teens At Risk… Powerful Insights Into Powerful Issues

The TEENS AT RISK series deals with powerful and relevant issues facing teenagers today.  This series reveals first hand how young people deal with and overcome the very real challenges encountered as part of their growing up.  Relevant to all teens and with real life messages about real life issues, these highly charged personal interviews and stories reveal, in their own words, how significant and seemingly overwhelming problems can be to overcome. 

TEENS AT RISK is crafted by experts to help solve and give advise about pressing issues facing youth in school, family and adolescent society and gives viewers the messages of hope and support that are needed in this complex and often overwhelming world.

Many depressed people, especially teenagers, also have problems with alcohol and drugs.  Sometimes the depression comes first and people try using drugs using drugs as a way to escape.  Other times, the alcohol or other drug use come first and depression is caused by the drug itself, the withdrawal from it or the problems that substance abuse causes. 

Obviously, in the long run drug or alcohol use just makes things worse.  Although it is often difficult to distinguish which came first, the important point is that if someone has one or both of these problems, the sooner they get help the better, as doing nothing is a recipe for bigger trouble, like serious addiction of failing in school or in life. 

Teens at Risk, teaches how to be honest about both issues- showing how depressed teens can deal effectively with their illness without substance abuse and how to communicate with people who can get into treatment – proven to be the only way to really get better and stay better.