This website is a companion to the Drug Strategies publication Treating Teens: A Guide to Adolescent Drug Programs, which was supported by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The guide is designed to help parents, teachers, judges, counselors and other concerned adults make better choices about teen substance abuse treatment. To order the 60-page Treating Teens publication, which includes practical resources for parents such as Ten Important Questions to Ask a Treatment Program,
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The PROGRAMS section provides a searchable database with extensive information on how 144 teen substance abuse treatment programs across the country implement the nine key elements of effective adolescent treatment determined by Drug Strategies' panel of specialists.
The RESEARCH section provides articles commissioned by Drug Strategies on important topics related to adolescent substance abuse, as well as the survey instruments used to create the treatment program profiles.