Clearing the Haze

Christian Thurstone, MD, is board certified in general, child and adolescent, and addiction psychiatry. He is medical director of a busy adolescent substance treatment program and an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he researches adolescent addiction and also serves as training director for the addiction psychiatry fellowship program. Dr. Thurstone also currently serves as a physician for the National Football League and is a past president of the Colorado Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Society. In 2012 he was awarded the White House Advocate in Action award for his efforts to reduce drug use and its consequences. That same year, the United States Congress awarded him another title: U.S. Army Major. He is honored to treat American service members needing mental health care as an Army Reserves officer. Visit his website at www.drthurstone.com.  Christine Tatum is an award-winning journalist whose market research firm, Media Salad, Inc., provides business information services that help companies and nonprofit organizations stay ahead of their competitors. Her professional stops include the Chicago Tribune, The Denver Post, the (Arlington Heights, IL) Daily Herald, and the (Greensboro, NC) News & Record. She continues to freelance, and her work also has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, New York Times and The Colorado Springs Gazette. Tatum was elected to serve as 2006-07 national president of the Society of Professional Journalists and has been honored to teach concepts in responsible journalism around the world at the invitation of the U.S. State Department. She frequently collaborates with her husband to produce communications designed to inform the public about substance abuse and addiction.

Foreword: Patrick Kennedy
1: Why adolescent substance use is a big deal
2: How to know if there is a problem and what to do about it/Communication monitoring
3: How to react when you learn your child is using drugs
4: When to seek treatment and what to look for in it
5: Specific family objectives during treatment
6: Addiction is a chronic condition that requires chronic maintenance
7: How to help your kids get clean and stay clean: the theory
8: Practical ways to help your kids get clean and stay clean
9: Taking care of you
10: Advocating for adolescent substance prevention
11: Additional resources
12: Summary
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