Safe Housing for Youth, Other Factors Key to Beating Addiction [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 4/13/154:00 AM

One of the biggest holes in the net of services to treat teens with addictions lies not in what happens during residential treatment, but in what happens after youth leave a facility, a leading expert told a group at the Pathways to Understanding: Neuroscience, Treatment & Young Adults conference at Kennesaw State University Wednesday.

“Safe housing is the biggest need,” said Dr. Kevin McCauley, director of Program Services at New Roads Treatment Center in Sandy, Utah.

And by safe housing, he did not mean going back home to live with parents or other family members.

“That’s a terrible idea for everybody,” McCauley said. “There are triggers, old patterns, all kinds of things that interfere.”

[For more of this story, written by Lynne Anderson, go to http://jjie.org/safe-housing-f...ng-addiction/108556/]

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