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Kids and Drugs
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  The latest on an old habit... A major conference in the Granite State this week looks at the research & trends on today’s teens and the drugs they use. We’ll learn more about these findings and how they differ in many ways from a generation ago. Jon's guests are Maria Gagnon, Assistant Director of the Adolescent Treatment Initiative at New Futures, the past Director of the Reclaiming Futures project and a clinical social worker who spent four years working at New Hampshire’s Division for Children, Youth and Families; and Eileen Fiori, Program Supervisor of Child and Family Services’ Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment program, licensed social worker and licensed alcohol and drug counselor. We'll also hear from Michael Nerney, Expert on adolescent brain development and a Consultant in substance abuse prevention and education. He is the featured speaker at an upcoming Child and Family Services seminar on adolescent substance abuse & risk behavior.
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Why don't these programs ever discuss the cultural crisis in the loss of any sense of transcendence in our national life? Isn't it abundantly clear that government, in recent years, and in the name of promoting commerce of all kinds for as much of the day and week, has, by legislative and judicial action, stripped the public square bare of all spiritual considerations, and has thus chained us all to the exclusively mundane dimension of existence? William James, in the Varieties of Religious Experience, cited this, as the reason par excellance, for recourse to mind altering agents. Viewed from this perspective, isn't the exclusively medical approach to this problem, doomed to failure- if it doesn't even make matters worse? Paul Corrao, M.D.