Addiction's Many Faces

Tackling drug dependency amongst young people: causes, effects and how prevention works

Felicitas Vogt

Drugs are pervasive - pushed at school, at parties, in the street. Young people have to make choices about drugs as a fact of everyday life. Ideals, protest, demanding school work, the need for emotional intimacy, the natural desire to experiment, wanting to appear cool - can all make drug taking seem attractive.

128pp; 210 x 148mm;

1 903458 17 X;

paperback; £10.99

So what are the secrets of helping young people learn about the many faces of addiction? What lessons do addiction have for us? And what about all forms of often socially sanctioned addiction such as shopping, sex, fame ...? Felicitas Vogt invites you to consider:- your own addictions and the roots of addiction; why young people turn to drugs; the effects of different drugs; what helps personal growth, health and relationships; ways we can help prevent addiction.

Here are young people and parents who speak powerfully from personal experience. They offer practical insights into prevention, how to cope with family drug problems and treatment options.

Felicitas Vogt worked as a Steiner Waldolf teacher before becoming an addiction counsellor. She has worked in drugs education since 1988, giving seminars all over the world on addiction, prevention and personal growth.

'Parents and teachers will find the stories by young drug users to be most illuminating. If you want to understand the experiences young people are seeking from drugs; if you want indications on how to relate to young drug (ab)users; if you want ideas about dealing with drug use in schools, then read these stories ... The author stresses the importance of searching for non-judgement ways of meeting young peoples' needs to help them avoid or overcome addiction . It offers a careful, calm, hopeful way through a potential minefield of issues.'
From the Foreword by Frank O'Hare, Dip. Addiction Drug Prevention Worker and Biographical Counsellor, Glasgow

'An encouraging book, providing helpful, positive tools for parents, teachers and anyone concerned with young people's health development.'
Andrea Sprenger, Counsellor with Inishfree Drug Rehabilitation Project, Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK