Substance+Abuse

- The use of harmful substances, primarily by children and adolescents, has been one of the most problematic areas faced by parents, schools, communities, and law enforcement agencies in the past two decades. - Substance abuse is the use of banned or illegal drugs and substances or the overuse of legal substances. - The adolescents who use them often seek relief, escape, or comfort from stress. - There are two broad categories of adolescent drug users: the experimenters and the compulsive users. - The Experimenters make up the majority of adolescent drugs. - Recreational users fall somewhere between experimenters and compulsive users. - The CDC reported that nationally 7.6% of high school students have tried for the first time before age 13.

Websites that may help:

http://www.maineparents.net/Monitoring/index.htm?site=ppc&place=sea&gclid=CLeQgaPwwaQCFZJl7AodESvpCw

http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=ctr_top_adol