a). 10%
b). 20%
c). 30%
d). 50%
e). 75%
According to a new research study funded by the Substance Abuse Policy Research Program (SAPRP) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and appears in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment.
Only 10% of adolescents needing substance abuse treatment enter treatment.
Why?
It is due in part to a lack of services adolescent treatment available.
At Medical News Today they expounded….”Despite the public health significance of adolescent substance abuse and the knowledge that treatment can be effective for this group, services for them are less available than for adults,” Knudsen says. “It means we lose our chance at early intervention, and that families may be unable to find services for their children in their communities.”
Knudsen’s study also found wide variations in quality among adolescent-only programs. She analyzed nine “domains” of quality offered by the programs, including things like whether families are encouraged to be involved in the treatment process or whether programs offer an array of comprehensive services. She found that only a small number of them scored high in each domain. The average treatment program in this national random sample of 154 treatment programs received a medium-ranking score in overall quality.
“The lack of comprehensive services in substance abuse programs for teens raises questions about whether teens will get what they need, since we know they are likely to have co-occurring psychiatric conditions and to engage in HIV risk behaviors,” says Knudsen.
When programs offered more intensive residential or inpatient treatment services, the treatment quality ranking tended to be higher. But such programs are in the minority. Seventy percent of adolescent substance abuse programs only treat addicted teens on an outpatient basis, according to her study.
“For parents who are looking for high-quality programs that offer the most comprehensive array of services, a good proxy indicator is whether that organization has an inpatient or residential level of care,” says Knudsen.
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Honestly I am surprised that it is at 10% and not less. Many people think teens don’t need it as much, but sadly teens who don’t get help early on will often struggle with alcohol and drug abuse for the rest of their lives.
I think the reason it is so low is probably because many parents think “eh, it’s a normal part of being a teenager”…and in some ways yes, but in more ways a lot of lives could be saved if we were more proactive and preventive about the truth about drugs and alcohol. A lot of people turn a blind eye to it all.
10$???? That’s a surprising and concerning statistic.
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Right. Just 10% I think. Still, majority of the teens know that the drug won’t do any good to them.
-jerry