 3/3/2010
The danger zone: 1.6 million addicted kids shaping outside-the-box treatment strategiesWith her bright pink nail polish, pancake makeup and darting, penciled eyes, Sarah looks older than 16. But being too old has never been her problem — not since the age of 11, when she sought help from a California drug treatment program for adolescents and was turned away for being too young.
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2/17/2010
Top 10 Addiction Myths — and Myth BustersMyth 1: Drug addiction is voluntary behavior. You start out occasionally using alcohol or other drugs, and that is a voluntary decision. But as times passes, something happens, and you become a compulsive drug user. Why? Because over time, continued use of addictive drugs changes your brain — in dramatic, toxic ways at times, more subtly at others, but virtually always in ways that result in compulsive and even uncontrollable drug use.
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