TEENS STAGES OF ADDICTION

A. Pre Stage - Teen Experiments how drugs/alcohol works for them.
     Learning Process

B. Early Stage - Teen uses drugs/alcohol to get pleasure/high.
     It's all just fun
    1. Few consequences from the beginning use of drugs/alcohol.
    2. Ability to control use of drugs/alcohol in most cases.
    3. Drug of use/alcohol increases: start using more.

C. Middle Stage - Teen starts using to get relief from pain.
    Change in Dealing with Life and Others
    1. drugs/alcohol becomes a problem/source of pain.
    2. Loss control over amount used of drugs/alcohol; using more and more.
    3. Extreme discomfort when not using
    4. Depression, emotional numbness, mental preoccupation

D. Late Stage - Teen is now using to obliterate consciousness.
    Physical and Mental Breakdown
    1. Severe psychological/physical consequences.
    2. Dissociation from self/reality, many blackouts.
    3. Suicide, insanity, accidental death, physical sickness, prison.

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