Alcohol, Drugs, and Teens

Addiction is one of the most poorly understood phenomena in America today. Most people believe that it is a lack of willpower. Most people think that it is full physical addiction to a drug. And most people think it can never happen to them. But addiction itself is a spectrum disorder, and can be anywhere along any point in the disease process - early, middle, or late stage.
Nine-out-of-ten addicts began using alcohol or drugs before age 18, and not one of them ever said, "When I grow up I w...