AUSTIN (KXAN) — After a year and a half of drug addiction without treatment, Anisa Madero spent her 17th birthday in a rehabilitation facility. Today, Madero is 20 years old, sober and a community guest specialist at an adult drug treatment program. Her time in treatment as a teen … Continue to full story .......
Dec. 1, 2021 – AUSTIN (KXAN) — 
Experimenting with substances can be risky for teens. It’s the responsibility of parents and caregivers to educate kids about drugs and alcohol. The teenage years can be some of the most fun and formative years of a person’s life. Yet, these years can also be marked by high emotions and
October 2022 – AUSTIN (KXAN) — The family of University of Texas student and Texas Longhorns linebacker 
Here we are again. Alarm bells are already sounding for the next threat to the health and safety of youth: marijuana edibles. And once again, government not only seems oblivious to it but is doing more to help the marijuana industry than to protect families from being blindsided yet again … 
Kids who grow up in homes where parents consume cannabis will more than likely use it themselves. Turns out the old adage, “monkey see, monkey do,” does ring true — even when it comes to cannabis use. However, when cannabis use involves youth it’s see, think, then do, says a 
It’s April, Alcohol Awareness Month – and that means it’s time to engage parents with MADD’s Power of Parents program. Research shows that adolescents who are more connected with their parents, for example, who attend family dinners more frequently, are less likely to drink alcohol or use other drugs among … 
Addiction can happen at any age, but the DEA said it usually starts when a person is young. Look out when adolescents start behaving differently for no apparent reason, including acting withdrawn, frequently tired or depressed or hostile, a change in peer groups, carelessness with grooming, decline in academic performance, 
April 7, 2021 (HealthDay News) — 
Teenagers’ cannabis addiction rates are about the same