"The most common reason why youth receive mental health services is feeling depressed (50%)."
To read more about this link between teens and depression, putting a teen at risk for falling in live with getting high please visit at: http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/2k9/youthMHcare/youthMHcare.cfm:
Reefer Madness? Marijuana, increased potency is the gateway to a debate on addiction and treatment.
“It was as if she woke up one day, and decades of her life had disappeared. Joyce, 52 and a writer in Manhattan, started smoking pot when she was 15, and for years it was a pleasant escape, a calming protective cloud. Then it became an obsession, something she needed to get through the day. She found herself hiding her addiction from her family, friends and co-workers.”
I just bought a book that describes in the most vivid way, loving to get high. It is Rolling Away: My Agony with Ecstasy, by Lynn Marie Smith.
Lynn describes her first experience with ecstasy:
“We were all silently looking at one another, waiting for someone to make the first move. I went to take a drink of my beer and as the coldness trickled down my throat, I was suddenly underneath a waterfall. A beautiful air passed through my entire body. My eyes slowly closed and I was in slow motion.” P. 29
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