There is growing concern across the United States that adolescents and young adults are increasingly vulnerable to the effects of drugs of abuse and substance abuse disorders. The National Institute on Drug Addiction (NIDA) has found that early
intervention for adolescents often has a greater impact on changing a child’s life.
Risk factors for addiction in adolescents in the United States today include: early aggressive behavior; lack of parental supervision; substance abuse; drug availability; poverty. Risk Factors for drug abuse among youth and adolescents represent challenges to an individual’s emotional, social, and academic development.
For young children already exhibiting serious risk factors, delaying intervention until adolescence will likely make it more difficult to overcome risks. By adolescence, children’s attitudes and behaviors are well established and not easily changed. (NIDA, Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents)
Although a small percentage of young adults are able to recover from addiction without help, the majority of individuals need assistance. Early intervention in high risk and substance abuse behaviors is essential when helping children and young adults realize their incredible potential. With early treatment and support, many adolescents are able to rebuild their lives.
Most important in finding an effective Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Service and outpatient treatment program for teens is to find one that has been designed for teenagers. Unfortunately most rehabilitation treatment services are planned with adults in mind, not considering that teanagers might also fall victim to the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
There is a difference between Drug and Alcohol Abuse Intervention Services and drug addiction treatment for teenagers than for adults. The single most important difference is the actual access that a teenager has to alcohol and drug treatments that are designed for their circumstantial as well as the physical and psychological needs of a teenager.
Weyland Intervention Services provides Orchestrated Interventions with the specific goal of getting a teenage abuser into treatment. It is their belief that such services should only be employed when a qualified counselor has assessed that it is the only option left for family and friends. Ethically, a less restrictive and certainly less intrusive intervention approach should first be explored before doing an Orchestrated Intervention.
Weyland's approach entertains the idea that there are often intermediate or gradations of intervention strategies that may be implemented. Families are typically afraid and sometimes even at their wits end when they decide that they are in need of an Intervention. It is the job of the professionally trained interventionist to infuse a sense of calm to the situation while clinically assessing both the need for an intervention, when best indicated and the level(s) of intervention that will best serve a teens specific situation.
If you are a teenager, have a teenage family member, friend or work with a teenager that needs help to overcome this painful, destructive illness while allowing the continuation of life's obligations with minimal interruption and located in the Northern California, San Francisco Bay Area in Oakland, Berkley, Danville, Concord and Walnut Creek areas - visit our website www.weylandservices.com/ or call (925) 945-7816 ext. 41.
