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There are ten million people today suffering from a mental health disorder who also abuse or are addicted to drugs.
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Drugs and Mental Illness
The Drug Abuse Prevention Library
Maia Miller
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The people pictured in this book are only models. They in no way practice or endorse the activities illustrated. Captions serve only to explain the subjects of photographs and do not in any way imply a connection between the real-life models and the staged situations.
Published in 2000 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010
Copyright 2000 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Miller, Maia Drugs and mental illness / Maia Miller p. cm.(The drug abuse prevention library) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: Discusses the relationship between drugs and mental illness and shows how drugs and addiction cause irrational behavior and promote personality disorders. ISBN 0-8239-3155-2 (lib. bdg.) 1. Narcotics addictsMental healthJuvenile litera ture. 2. Mentally illSubstance abuseJuvenile litera ture. [1. Drug abuse. 2. Mentally ill.] I. Title. II. Series. RC564.3 .M55 2000 616.86dc21 99-046390
Manufactured in the United States of America
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Contents
Introduction
7
Chapter 1
The Dangers of Drugs
13
Chapter 2
What Drugs Are Out There?
20
Chapter 3
Drug-Induced Mental Illness
30
Chapter 4
Teens, Drugs, and the Mind
41
Chapter 5
Drugs That Help
48
Glossary
57
Where to Go for Help
59
For Further Reading
61
Index
62
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Thousands of teens are prescribed certain kinds of drugs to deal with mental illnesses such as depression.
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Introduction
Marnie giggled, then took another long drag of the joint that was being passed around. She closed her eyes, feeling the drug take effect. Everything was slow and relaxed. Her parents' divorce, her breakup with Max, the fight with her mother that morning like the one they had every morningall of that seemed miles away.
Marnie's friend Jade had introduced her to pot a few months ago, over winter break. Marnie had been really nervous at first, but after smoking a few times, she had begun to look forward to using it. Now she was getting stoned almost every day. She was falling behind in her classes, and sometimes she had to steal from her mother's wallet to pay for the drugs, but Marnie didn't care.
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When Darnell joined the track team in ninth grade, he had high hopes of following in his brother Jared's footsteps. Jared had been the top athlete on the team and last year had won a track scholarship to go to a local college.
At the end of his first season, however, Darnell's times were still just averageand way below Jared's. Darnell decided to go on a rigorous diet and training schedule, eating only raw vegetables and plain rice and running five to six miles a day. When his mother finally brought him to a doctor several months later, Darnell had lost almost forty pounds.
The doctor sent him to a psychiatrist, who diagnosed Darnell with anorexia. She prescribed Prozac, an antidepressant medication that would help Darnell both with his eating disorder and with some of the other problems he was having. After six months of medication and therapy, Darnell was eating regularly and was able to express some of his frustrations through words instead of self-destructive behavior.
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