Does Teen Cell Phone Addiction Treatment Help?

It is not uncommon in today’s technology-heavy environment to see pretty much everyone older than five wandering around with a cell phone in their hand. One need only look around a restaurant, a corner store, or school hallways to see the depth to which cellular technology has integrated itself into today’s teenagers’ lives. Cell phones…

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Does My Teenager Need Addiction Help?

For a parent, trying to determine if your teenager has been or is using drugs or alcohol can be hard and emotionally painful. There are several signs to look for if you are concerned that your teen may be using and needs addiction help. It can be challenging to face the fact that your teen…

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Is Sex Addiction a Mental Illness?

Compulsive sexual behavior, teen sex addiction, or hypersexuality are terms often used interchangeably to describe the actions of a person who either with or without intention engages in sexual behavior. Someone with sexual addiction will experience excessive preoccupations with sexual fantasies, urges, or behaviors that are difficult to control. These behaviors and fantasies eventually cause…

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What Does Addiction Look Like in Teens?

Addiction comes in many forms. Whether it’s drugs or alcohol, technology, or something else, addiction is a growing public health concern among teenagers in the United States. Teens who abuse drugs or alcohol may have an increased risk of developing an addiction when they are adults. Once addiction develops, substance abuse treatment at a treatment…

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Toxic Social Media

We live in a society where things travel fast. People can get from one place to the next more quickly than ever. News of all kinds, information, photographs, and videos are available to download and view at the touch of a button. This also means that both positivity and negativity travel with equal speed and…

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Co-Occurring Disorders

The term co-occurring disorders in teens could be described as a condition where a person has a co-existing substance use disorder and mental illness. While typically used to refer to the combination of mental and substance use disorders, the term additionally refers to different combinations of disorders, such as intellectual disability and a mental disorder.…

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How Can Residential Treatment Break Your Teen’s Phone Addiction?

Teen phone addiction treatment is often called a social disorder, described as a teen’s obsession or fixation with their cell phone. While most teenagers possess a smartphone, cell phone, or smartphone addiction is characterized by excessive cellphone/smartphone use, causin g harm and trouble in a teenager’s life. Activities that they may be addicted to incorporate…

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Rape Culture and Teen Addiction

According to recent statistics, one in every five women and one in every 71 men will become a victim of rape at some point in their lives. Rape isn’t limited to unwanted sex between a person and a stranger, either. In fact, over half of female sexual assault victims indicate that they were raped by…

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Nomophobia & Teen Success

How often do you see young people on their phone? If you answered anything other than all the time, you are not interacting with the same teenagers that we are. Phone and tablet use is so common that it is even being added to their school curriculum. Prompts such as “find this resource online and…

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How Addiction Shapes Teen Growth

Though it seems that teen drug use as it pertains to cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamines is stable, if not on the decline, drug use and abuse is still prevalent. Whether it be alcohol abuse, prescription medication misuse and abuse, and one of the more common behaviors that we are seeing, vaping, teens today are still…

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