PARTS is a vital FREE community program that leads adolescents to drug and
alcohol treatment services. Families use the unique PARTS program for a variety of needs:
PARTS teaches parents that this is a chronic, progressive disease that
seldom gets better without parent intervention and can result in death.
PARTS serves as a free aftercare program for families who have access to
outpatient or inpatient treatment programs.
PARTS provides free support and education for families with no insurance
and limited financial resources.
PARTS groups serve to educate both parents and teens about the long-term
consequences of continued use.
What factors are associated with better outcome following treatment?
- Participating in self-help groups, such as AA, NA, PARTS (Parents and Adolescents
Recovering Together Successfully). *Having a network of dependable friends and family, and
being satisfied with the support they provide.
- Making new friends following treatment who are supportive of abstinence. It
appears to be especially important to have friends that are not drinking or using.
- Reducing exposure to substance use in the home, school, work, and social environment.
- Experiencing life change, both positive and negative. Abstinence following treatment
requires considerable adjustment, which may result in some positive changes (such as
making new abstaining friends) as well as some stressful changes (such as learning how to
interact with family members while maintaining sobriety).
- Involvement in school, even when grades are slow to change.
- Having family members attend Alanon or treatment program-sponsored Aftercare meetings.
- Having family members who are perceived by the teen as supportive of abstinence.
- Living in a family that allows members to express themselves. Interestingly, some
families of abstaining teens report more conflict, which may reflect the transition to
having an abstaining teen in the family.
- Being aware of relapse risk, and using a variety of strategies to cope with alcohol land
drug situations (such as leaving the situation, talking to friends who are not using, or
engaging in another activity in order to avoid drinking or drug use).
- Improvement in the teen's attitude toward him/herself (that is, increased self-esteem).
- Feeling depressed and anxious are common during the first few months after treatment,
especially among those making the greatest changes (not drinking or using). However, by
one year after treatment, teens that continue to abstain report less depression and
anxiety than teens that return to drug involvement.
In San Diego there is PARTS that you can refer the Teen and his/her family to. That
will help them with the transition.
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