substance abuse, addiction, addiction treatment, help for families, co-occurring disorders, underage drinking, mental illness, 21st century brain and neuroscience research.
This is an excellent, 8-minute video, that includes the voices of parents, teens, addictions’ specialists, a doctor, police officer and others to address one community’s underage drinking problem. It presents many important facts and suggestions for how and why it’s important to address underage drinking.
About Lisa Frederiksen
Lisa Frederiksen has been consulting, researching, writing and speaking on substance abuse, addiction, treatment, dual diagnosis, underage drinking and help for the family centered around 21st century brain and addiction-related research since 2003. Her 4o+ years experience with family and friends’ alcohol abuse and alcoholism and her seventh and eighth books, "Loved One In Treatment? Now What!" and "If You Loved Me, You'd Stop!," frame her work. She founded BreakingTheCycles.com in 2008 and writes a blog of the same name.
