TOPIC: Drugs and Alcohol

What Kids Need Most

By Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT

In a couple of weeks I’m participating in a panel discussion at a local high school. There, in front of a very large crowd, I will join four other experts discussing the dangers, the patterns (and the strategies to combat) teenage drug use. The panel discussion is titled “Drug Awareness and Prevention Seminar,” and the PTA is marketing it through a number of channels. Hundreds of anxious parents can be expected.

Ask Hal – My Teen Son, Drugs, and Alcohol

By Hal Edward Runkel, LMFT

Dear Hal,

my 17 year old son, who is a junior, recently went to a military school. It was his decision. He said that he needed change in his life. He and his friends were smoking tobacco and marijuana, drinking alcohol and maybe even some drugs.