What Are These Treatment Programs Like?

Question by RadicalRabbit: What are these treatment programs like?
My parents are threatening to send me to a drug abuse treatment center or a behavioral treatment center. I am a 14 year old boy. Can someone explain to me what this menas. How long will I be in it, What will I do there, blah blah blah etc?

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Drug Addiction Substance dependence Intervention 12 Step Program Part 1 – The section about substance dependence in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (more specifically, the 2000 “text revision”, the DSM-IV-TR) does not use the word addiction at all. It explains: When an individual persists in use of alcohol or other drugs despite problems related to use of the substance, substance dependence may be diagnosed. Compulsive and repetitive use may result in tolerance to the effect of the drug and withdrawal symptoms when use is reduced or stopped. This, along with Substance abuse are considered Substance Use Disorders

Students told prescription drug abuse has no good outcome

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"You take more and more (pills) and try different drugs to mimic that first hit." Sarah got help for her addiction through treatment. "She enrolled in college … she was happy," Shay said. Then one day, Sarah ran into an acquaintance who was a known …
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Counties need assurance of state help

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Drug addiction is a major reason; as Stark County Sheriff-elect Michael McDonald notes, a good many people who need $ 1,000 a day to feed their drug habit will steal anything that isn't nailed down and a lot that is. Gang turf and retaliation issues are …
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