When Teen Drug Use Comes Home by Bettina Snyder
A parent's guide that opens with the author's own story of her fourteen-year-old son's arrest for marijuana possession and offers advice on teen drug use.
About the book
When Teen Drug Use Comes Home, weaves street smarts, the world of substances, parental emotions, and the realism of the everyday teen world, tightly into a personal information guide for parents, who find themselves overwhelmingly, at the grips of handling their teens drug use.
Opening with her own journey through the crisis of teen drug use, with her fourteen-year old son, Alan. Bettina Snyder tells the true story of the many conflicts of parenting a troubled teen, along with her own feelings of parental failure.
Lending a voice of realism, When Teen Drug Use Comes Home, focuses on shifting parental gears in the teen years of your child's life, the make-up of teen society, and the triggers that lead teens to seek out the use of substances.
Through personal interviews with teens, who use drugs, parents will get a valuable insight into the silent world of teen substance use. What kid of drugs teens are using, and how they hide their use from their parents.
When it comes to recognizing teen drug use, parents need to be up to date on the many different kinds of substance teens are using. When Teen Drug Use Comes Home, profiles the many common, and not so common drugs of the teen world, giving parents practical advice on how to identify adolescent substance use.
Personal, When Teen Drug Use Comes Home, takes the theory out of teen drug use and replaces it with everyday realism, with emphasis on the family structure.
About the author
A native Oregonian, Bettina Snyder, is a teen mentor, and a mother of three children. Her twelve year career as a teen mentor has introduced her to many issues of the teen world including, teen pregnancy, runaways, truancy, problems with peer pressure, teen academic issues, emotional problems, including drug and alcohol use.
Along with helping many teens in crisis, she also personally endured a five-year marriage with an alcoholic spouse, surviving her own personal trauma of emotional and physical abuse.
Believing that she had witnessed every teen adversity possible. In September of 2003, her fourteen-year-old son, Alan, was arrested at a local high school, for possession and distribution of marijuana, revealing his secretive drug use.
Through her own life experiences, many years as a teen mentor, and her desperate battle to save her son from marijuana addiction, When Teen Drug Use Comes Home, was born.
"It is through diversity that we live, learn, and help others, it is what makes us human."
Bettina, husband, Chuck, reside in Bend, Oregon, along with their children, Brian, Alan and Melissa.
Archived from the Harris Literary Agency website. The agency's listing is reproduced as published, with contact details removed.
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