towns, the world of the adolescent is permeated by drugs. When 'a little

harmless experimentation' becomes addiction, parents, teachers, and clinicians

are often at a loss. For this age group (roughly ages 13 to 23), traditional

substance abuse programs simply are not enough" (Nowinski, inside cover).

Today's society provides many challenges for adolescents that our

parents never had to face. Pre-marital sex and pregnancy, alcohol abuse, and

drug addiction have always been around but they have never been more available

to adolescents than they are now. Adolescents are more on their own to take

care of themselves with more and more single parent households. The problem of

drug and alcohol is a major one. Teenagers feel a need to drink and do drugs to

fit in to peer groups. The problem is widespread.

lifestyle variables for teens and their parents.

here and deny the fact that the problem is there then we are just setting

describes the differential effectiveness of three models of adolescent drug

My final source was another journal article that was taken from The

February 1, 1994 edition of the Los Angeles Times. The piece was written by

comparison of family systems therapy, group therapy, and family drug education,"

The second source that I used was a journal article entitled "Prevalence

had increased significantly among teenagers between 1992 and 1993.

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