Talking to Teens: A Family’s Battle with Substance Use Disorder

Those conversations can take place anywhere at home, with family or friends- really any place. It should be an ongoing conversation, and maybe it's a series of lots of little conversations where you're sharing your point of view, you're asking questions, you're curious about how your child is thinking about substance use and really taking the opportunity to listen as much as, if not more, than, lecturing or sharing your point of view, or instilling fear, or whatever the case might be.