Join host Ivette Torres for a program that examines factors that can lead to addiction in young people, and options for receiving treatment and recovery services.
This episode will examine environmental and/or biological factors that can lead to addiction; how drugs and alcohol can affect a youth's development; and the role of modern technology options (e.g., social networking, texting) available to adolescents and young people receiving treatment and recovery services. Some of these are in-person services; others use new technologies and social networking.
This episode will highlight available supports, such as recovery high schools and colleges and other educational supports for young people in recovery; it will also discuss other support networks available to youth, such as family, faith, and community, to help them live healthy and productive lives in long-term recovery.
Panelists include: Frances M. Harding, Director, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, SAMHSA; Monique Bourgeois, LADC, Executive Director, Association of Recovery Schools; Greg Williams, Co-Director, Connecticut Turning to Youth and Families; Mark Godley, Ph.D., Director of Research and Development for Chestnut Health Systems.
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