Christy and Ryan

In 2003, Christy Crandell found herself in a constant battle trying desperately to help her son Ryan fight his drug and alcohol addiction. The battle finally ended when Ryan was arrested for armed robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison. In prison, Ryan finally beat his addiction and revealed many of his secrets to hiding the warning signs of drug and alcohol abuse.

Christy decided to tell her story to the world by writing: Lost & Found: A Mother and Son Find Victory Over Teen Drug Addiction, and launch this website: www.stopteendrugaddiction.com.

Book CoverStopTeenDrugAddiction.com is a resource for parents. Parents will learn how to recognize the warning signs of drug and alcohol abuse – and understand the importance of early parent education as a key deterrent. You’ll learn:

“I wrote Lost & Found: A Mother and Son Find Victory Over Teen Drug Addiction in hope of helping other families avoid the terror and grief of teen drug and alcohol addiction. This is a painful story of loss, yet it is a story that ultimately resulted in victory and hope.

Click on Foreword by Ryan to read a letter from my son Ryan. With the creation of this website and the information in Lost & Found…, Ryan and I hope that parents will become educated about today’s teenage culture of drugs and alcohol and learn to recognize the symptoms of drug and alcohol abuse. We offer you hope in the face of despair; and encouragement and strategies to intervene to rescue your teen.”

— Christy Crandell

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Full Circle Treatment Center

Full Circle Treatment Center is an intensive outpatient adolescent drug rehabilitation program coming soon to Placer County, California.  I am one of the founders of this exciting project and I would encourage anyone who lives in the local area to spread the word.  We have a severe shortage of quality treatment centers for the youth in our community and I am proud to be a part of this much-needed project.  If you would like more information or to donate to this cause, go to www.fullcircletreatmentcenter.com.

What is Salvia?

Salvia divinorum, the plant, is part of the mint family but resembles sage and contains the hallucinogen, Salvinorum A which can be smoked, chewed, made into a tea or even inhaled.  It can induce visions and vivid hallucinations, and something called synethesia, where the user hears colors or smells sounds. The effects last about an hour. High doses can cause unconsciousness and short-term memory loss. But the long-term effects of Salvia Divinorum are not well known.  Currently, it is not federally regulated in the United States; however, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Delaware prohibit its use. It is sold on the Internet and head shops throughout the country.

Candy Packets that look like Drugs

New mint packets being sold by The Hershey Co. look nearly identical to the tiny heat-sealed bags used to sell illegal powdered drugs like crack, heroin and cocaine and glorify the drug trade.  Ice Breakers Pacs, nickel-sized dissolvable pouches with a powdered sweetener inside, hit store shelves in November. The packets, which come in blue and orange plastic slide-up cases, are similar enough to drug packets that a child familiar with the candy could mistakenly swallow a heat-sealed bag of drugs.

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