Posts Tagged ‘should’

Teens should be screened for substance abuse
Filed under: substance abuse adolescent

Substance-abuse education and screening should be a part of almost every visit between a doctor and an adolescent, the nation's leading pediatricians said Monday. In a statement published in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics, members of the …
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Wayland High School student present survey results
Filed under: substance abuse adolescent

For parents who are still not sure how to handle adolescent substance abuse issues, WaylandCares hosts free parent coffees to review prevention messages for parents to use with their children; share new research on effective prevention strategies; …
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New substance abuse programme for young people
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A new programme offering substance abuse care for children as young as 13 has today been launched. The Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Programme (AIOP) was announced at a joint press conference by Caron Bermuda, Bermuda Youth Counseling Services (BYCS) …
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Group: Docs Should Talk To Teens About Substance Abuse
The AAP recommended pediatricians become knowledgeable about adolescent alcohol, cigarette and other drug use trends, then use appropriate screening tools and intervention strategies during all health supervision. The AAP said it feels that all …
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Prescription Drugs Abuse Becoming Epidemic In Middle Class America
By Liz Nace, MADE coalition An alarming rise in prescription drug abuse, along with an increasingly available selection of synthetic drugs, are just a few of the trends parents should be aware of as they talk with their children about drug and alcohol …
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Should Teens be Screened for Drug Use?
I wonder what happens in those families where a sip of wine at dinner is a cultural rite of passage, or why the AAP has no recommendations for talking to kids about the distinction between responsible adult alcohol consumption and the use of controlled …
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Probation chief wins high award
One of the biggest problems our officers face is that the people who come to us have often dropped out of high school, some as early as their freshman year. Because of that and their drug and alcohol problems it's very difficult to get them trained so …
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When we're young, we don't see it coming
Alcohol abuse is something many of us, especially as students, are familiar with via a night of personal experience or navigating a friend's experience with overconsumption. As media numbs our minds and justifies our drinking, it appears to be …
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Question by Cali: My man of 16 months says he doesn’t know what love is- Should I dump him?
We are both in our 40′s and divorced from ex’s who cheated and were very self serving. He and I are both pretty stable responsible and highly compatible people. (met on a dating service). After 16 mos of seeing each other every weekend, talking on phone every night, going on vacations and meeting eachother’s families, he still cannot say the three Big Words I love you. He literally chokes on them, even though he is very articulate otherwise! Some of my friends swear it is because he is Irish (!!) and that’s how Irish guys are=others just say DUMP him if he doesnt love you now he never will. I go back and forthe and cannot decide. He says matter of factly that he doesnt have to have mushy romantic love in order to be committed and feel we have a strong and healthy relationship (and great sex) –so if we have all that, then why doesn’t he KNOW it is love?? He did have those mushy feelings for the ex wife, but of course she was YOUNG and Beautiful when they met, and is that what this comes down to for men? I am very fit and am told (by him and others) that I am sexy. but he only rarely compliments my looks, although he does look at other beautiful women. . . I was never insecure but this is definitely taking a toll on me. I have passed up a lot of other opportunities with other men, because I think he and I are so special together. but he floored me the other day by answering my question of love with “I don’t think I know what love even is. . .maybe I should head back to therapy” should I dump him? Why would any guy stick around and make future plans without LOVE??? I don’t know if I can, without hearing the words!
I never said I didn’t like him (to Indrajit) I do, I love him! I guess I am gathering opinions because I want something to strike me as true. I obviously dont WANT to dump him because he treats me so well, and acts lovingly towards me, so I figured it was in there, just not SPOKEN. But since he admitted he doesn’t know what love IS, I wonder if he is just admitting that although he Treasures me, (his term) , he doesnt get the blown away feeling of infatuated youth. YES I type too much.
To Eamon (cool name)
when I asked him finally if he loved me on valentine’s day he said he Treasured me and of course had feelings of love but it was very hard to say. That held me for about 5 mos. But when I asked again recently he admitted ” i don’t know if i know what love is” . . . and the reason I even asked is because although he treats me well, he is pretty hard to read, keeps his hands to himself, not as affectionate as every other guy I’ve dated…

Question by Lucky: Stressed, can’t do any work… what should I do?
I don’t know where to start with this stuff… don’t tell me to go to a trusted adult, or my parents. Cause they are all useless. My mom will say “oh here honey, lets take you to see my therapist.” Who is an old adult is certified with teens… but I just don’t like her… or having to share one who knows everything through my mom’s eyes.

Where can I find counseling… it seems like the suicide hotline is a bit extreme… even though I am depress…. I am totally not suicidal, my depression turns physical… and its affecting my day to day life.

Question by 1magicmom: How long should you see a therapist after you lose someone? Three years too long? Why can’t we be happy?
The man I have been dating nearly 3 years has been seeing a ” so called therapist” since his wife died in 2007. We started dating near the end of 2008. He has been seeing this “Doctor” within weeks of his wife’s death and is still seeing her. She charges a high fee for him to see her; I learned this when she, on learning I was dating her “meal ticket” decided to have me brought in so she could evaluate how much trouble I might be to her control over him. She was anything but nice, glaring at me the whole visit. Asking masked questions, and making assumptions of me when she didn’t know a thing about me was very unprofessional not to mention down right stupid on her part. Most of the things I have learned about her are enough to make ones skin crawl. From all I have been able to learn I am sure she is just milking him for his money. I doubt he still ( needs therapy ) as nearly a year ago. He made his last entry in his journals he had kept since he and his wife married. He brought the journal and let me read it. I didn’t know how to feel, relieved that he was no longer struggling with her sudden death shortly after being told she was doing great. Or to cry, because he was finally able to let go of the pain and grief of losing her. And then to let me read something so private as his journal about her? He loved his wife dearly, and she was a great person, and a great friend to him as well as to me. But the way he is being “used” by this “so called doctor” makes my blood boil. I don’t want to see him used, or tricked by this person. I have nothing to gain that I don’t already have, which is his friendship. Or may I do … not more than two weeks ago, he told me that he loved me enough to marry me, BUT, he fears I will die… something that sounds too much like her mouth not his. He was seeing her the next day and told me he was telling her the “great news.” That same weekend; ( he saw her Thursday, ) That Saturday he started out with “I love you” but…” I am afraid you will die before me and I can’t go through that again.” We are a year apart in age, no one is guaranteed tomorrow. So why let that keep either of us from being happy? This is why I am sure it is this quack doctor speaking through him, putting words in his mouth and fear inside him. More than likely I will out live him, not him me. I think we should take a chance to be happy in the now and let the future take care of itself. Am I wrong in thinking this way, shouldn’t we both be happy?