Teen Alcohol And Drug Rehab Centers In Kentucky

The transition from grammar school to middle school for children in Kentucky is 12 years old. Addiction treatment experts agree that preventing kids from trying drugs is better than having to treat adolescents for substance abuse disorder. Nevertheless, peer pressure is high during middle school, despite your best efforts at parenting your child, and your teen may still try to use harmful substances.

For kids at the youngest age of adolescence (12 years old), the main type of drug used is inhalants – they are easy to get adolescent hands on, as they are usually nothing more than the usual household products sniffed or inhaled to get a high. They also are responsible for brain damage and other side effects.

Nearly 70 percent of high school seniors will have tried alcohol, 50 percent have used an illegal drug, and more than 20 percent have used a prescription drug for a nonmedical reason.

As a parent, it is a good idea to start discussing drug use and abuse when they are very young and continue reinforcement as they get older.

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Kentucky Statistics on Adolescent Drug Use

Between 6.31 and 7.51 percent of all kids in the age group 12 to 17 having participated in illicit drug use in Kentucky. Another statistic important to the discussion of substance abuse among Kentucky adolescents is that 8.69 to 9.92 percent of adolescents had a major depressive episode in 2014. With mental and emotional hardships often leading to drug and alcohol abuse, it is important for Kentucky parents to pay close attention to what their teenage children are experiencing and perhaps suffering during their middle and high school years.

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