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Issues Teens Face
Why do our teens use drugs, alcohol, gamble or engage in any destructive behaviors such as eating disorders or cutting? For any prevention program to be a success, it must address the underlying reasons our children become addicts.
- Media pressure
- Family pressure
- Peer pressure
- Drugs and alcohol
- Perfectionism
- Feeling “less than” do to society’s unrealizable standards of success
- Family dysfunction
- Too high of expectations, which results in a need to escape with anything that numbs the mind like internet gambling and pornography, excitement and danger, violence against self and others
- Push to succeed
- Over scheduling
- Disconnect from family
- Stress
- The “whatever, dude” response to life
- Shame
- Feelings of emptiness and disconnect
- Search for own identity
- Search for acceptance
- Search for self-worth
