Choices and Consequences. What to Do When a Teenager Uses Alcohol/Drugs

Editorial Review

Alcohol and other drug use among teenagers is epidemic.
Children as young as grade-school age are experimenting with mood-altering substances.
One out of every four high school students drink to excess when they drink.
Many teenagers are abusing alcohol and other drugs--and many will die prematurely if they don't get help.

Choices & Consequences tells you precisely how you can help. Written for parents, teachers, family doctors, mental health professionals, school guidance counselors, social workers, juvenile justice workers, clergy, and anyone else who cares about teenagers, it describes a step-by-step process called intervention that you can use to stop a teenager's harmful involvement with chemicals. If you're worried about kids and alcohol or other drugs, you can do something. And you can start today.
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Customer Reviews

Know a drug using teen? Read this book--You can help!

2000-05-18
Of all the books I've read on the subject of teenagers and drug/alcohol abuse, this is by far the best. The authors clearly spell out exactly why you're right to be worried and how to help. They explain how to conduct an "intervention" to cut through the teen's denial that drugs/alcohol is a problem for her or him. By presenting treatment options and contracts as her or his "choices," parents and others can also give up the sense of fear that leads to ineffectual efforts to control someone else's drinking or drug use. Once you let go and realize that--just as the teen you care about has a choice (including using)--you have a choice to impose consequences that range from mild to severe. The book is oddly reassuring and direct. A must-read for any parent or friend of a substance using teen.

"You sat on the burner, you sit on the blisters."

2008-04-26
"This book describes a step by step process you can use to help stop a teenager's harmful involvement with chemicals.

One of my favorite chapters is the one "You sat on the burner, you sit on the blisters."

Judy Herzanek/Why Don't They Just Quit?

Excellent Resource for Parents with Teens

2006-12-10
I bought this book and read it before talking to a drug counseler. This was the #1 book recommended by them. I found it extremely useful, and helpful in that I felt much more in control after understanding the issues that teens face when facing an addiction. I particularly found the stage of use/abuse outlined in the book to be exactly like what the professional abuse counselers used. Highly recommend!

Choices and Consequences

2006-11-15
This book tells you precisely how you can help and was selected by the board of directors for www.Parentshelpingparents.info as one of only two books recommended to our parents of teens. It describes a step-by-step process called intervention that you can use to stop a teenager's harmful involvement with chemicals.

Warren Pat Nichols
Founder
Parents Helping Parents, Inc.

Great Book!

2005-07-17
This is truely an easy to read, step-by-step book. Explaining first the teenager's brain and thinking and what stresses a teenager has in their life, then going on to reasons for drug use, and practical, tangible ways to deal with it. This is a great book for any parent of a teenager to read, whether or not they have found their child trying drugs. It is a great "heads up" informative sourcebook. I esp liked the section on what special emotional needs that teens are looking to have fulfilled during adolescence. It is really helpful to read that as a parent of any teenager.

Author Survival Meditations for Parents of Teens

2004-12-16
It's so important for parents to DO SOMETHING when they discover their teen using alcohol or other drugs. This no-nonsense approach is one of the best I've seen, and I've been counseling for over 20 years.