Your teens are back to school, which means the stress of keeping them out of trouble during summer is over, right?
Wrong.
There are even more reasons to be concerned about what your teens are up to. While most parents think “my kid would never do drugs, they know it is wrong,” the fact is that one in five high school aged teens are using drugs. According to a study by National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, 17 percent of high-schoolers have admitted to using drugs during the school day. The start of the school year does not signal the end of trying to keep your kids safe.
For more information on why kids turn to drugs, read the complete article in Scottsdale Living Magazine, where the article originally appeared.
