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It's not too late to help your teen this Summer

Aspen Academy helps teens get back on track behaviorally so they can succeed academically. Teens also earn credit to help them catch up for the next school year. Read more about how Aspen helps when Summer School Is Not Enough...

Aspen Education Group has wilderness treatment, residential treatment, and boarding schools for teens who are struggling with substance abuse or other behavioral issues

Call (866) 845-1391 to learn more about our programs for teens.

Smaller, college preparatory boarding schools offer your teenager more personal attention in and out of the classroom. Therapeutic boarding schools give students struggling in public schools an opportunity to change their lives, rediscover their self-worth, and build great futures.

Wilderness programs use outdoor experiences like camping and orienteering to help troubled teens confront and work through issues ranging from substance abuse to more severe emotional and behavioral problems. It's not too late to help your teen before school starts.

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The Most Addictive Types of Video Games

All drugs are not created equally. Some drugs can give a momentary buzz, while others will provide a euphoric high of which one can hardly ever get enough. The latter is usually the more addictive substance. So it can be said that not all video games are equally addictive.

With the advent of new and better technologies, video game companies have become endowed with greater abilities to create deeper, more epic, more socially interactive, and thus more addicting games. Whereas the first-generation games previously consisted of a one block bouncing back and forth between two other blocks, modern video games have become massive productions on the visual scale of most action movies. Many video games released today have better box office openings than even the biggest Hollywood blockbusters. Video games are surely a new media force with which to be reckoned.

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Dealing with adolescent addictions? These programs are geared specifically for teens struggling with addictions:

Academy at Swift River - Massachusetts
The Academy at Swift River is a college preparatory boarding high school that specializes in working with adolescents ages 14-17.5 having social, academic and familial difficulties. Learn more about the Academy at Swift River >>

SunHawk Recovery - Utah
SunHawk Recovery's teen residential treatment program and boarding school combines an intense clinical intervention with an accredited academic program. Learn more about SunHawk Recovery >>

Dad's Role in Teen Drug Use

Few parents fully understand the power that they wield in keeping their children alcohol and drug free. Dads, in particular, tend to "disengage" themselves from the family picture, absorbing themselves in work and leaving family dinners, school functions and outings largely to Mom.

But consider this: Teens in a two-parent family are 68 percent more likely than other teens in a similar family configuration to use drugs and alcohol if the relationship with Dad is perceived by the child to be "fair" or "poor." Even those teens living in a single parent household with Mom fare better in abstaining from substances if the parent-child relationship is good.

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