Substance use robs teens of their futures by making a mess of the day-to-day. Often, things start small. I’ve seen girls who smoke pot on a regular basis slowly lose ground at school, drift away from their principled friends, or distance themselves from helpful adults. When a girl gets upset about the troubles caused by her drug problem, she often soothes herself by using more, and harder, drugs. From there, you can easily imagine how this terrible story unfolds as her escalating substance use only makes matters worse. Drug and alcohol abuse becomes exponentially more difficult to treat the
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