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[quote=Anonymous]So many answers here that every single kid in recovery will say they did.  sports, financially secure families, resist peer pressure etc etc but none have said what the biggest cause of substance abuse is,

mental illness.

as a parent of a kid in recovery, you learn that substance abuse is a by product of mental illness and they use to numb the pain, to shutoff the noise, etc   they get addicted and it goes from there.  there are people who don't get addicted and have "normal teen behavior"  but more and more are becoming addicted at unseen numbers.

none of these kids decided to be addicts, none of them are enjoying killing themselves slowly.  the insurance companies are awful with treatment and our elected officials have their head in the sand until it happens to their kids.

do what it takes to make your kid happy and healthy, i can tell you my kids entire high level club/travel team played 90% of their games high as kites and most of the team plays in division one now and still gets high al the time.

the drugs they are using have a much higher potency than just a few years ago and are laced with highly addictive drugs mixed in.  The dab, they snort, inject increase doses etc.

here's to many months sober for my kid and if your kid needs help, get them professional help

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