Suspended Adolescence: Understanding and Dealing with Teenage Substance Abusers

Suspended Adolescence provides practical information and options for parents, guardians and professionals dealing with substance abusing teenagers and young adults. Alcohol and other drugs can exacerbate the "normal" mood swings, depressions, rebelliousness, and acting out behaviors of adolescents, and prolong them indefinitely. Drugs taken repeatedly may delay or slow down emotional growth, LEAVING THEM IN A STATE OF SUSPENDED ADOLESCENCE. As one parent stated so well "Today, as a result of the help and support my family has received, I am able to refer to the bad times as, THAT WAS US instead of THAT IS US."