Timothy Harrington talks to Dr. Justin Trosclair DC on A Doctor's Perspective Podcast. Drug use can lead to addiction or dependence: why is the difference so key? Trust vs Fear when disciplining teenagers. How to remove the stigma so you don’t suffer in silence and get the mental health they need. Wide Wonder founder Timothy Harrington. Learning to not just get off drugs and alcohol but to stay stopped. How does childhood trauma or abuse set one up to have unhealthy relationship or addiction to drugs and alcohol? Strong relation with self and other people and I can be the best to my clients. ADDICTION and DEPENDENT There is a Huge distinction between ADDICTION and DEPENDENT: what is it and why should it matter so much?   A key to remember is the media narrative vs evidence based science narrative are not the same. Can you use drugs recreationally without it having negative consequences on your friends, family and job? Is the moral decay of society label they put on illicit drugs helping or hurting the way teenagers and adults approach drug use? Why/ how are there so many people (70%) functioning normally with a job yet still take drugs? We only have programs that address the rock bottom person and not the one who is still coasting on 2 wheels. Why is early age use of drugs so detrimental and increases the likelihood of addiction and all the negative consequences that come with it? Teenagers Teenagers rebel. They experiment with drugs and other addictive behaviors (even gaming). Parents have several options to deal with this scenario. Tim discusses the labeling them as a junkie or addict route, the you are grounded and punishment route, the Trust and relate to the kid about your past experiences route and ties in peer pressure along with it. What are the negative and positive consequences for each route previously mentioned? Ultimately we can have an addiction to just about anything when it becomes an unhealthy balance and negative consequences or neglecting other areas of life and yet we keep doing that destructive habit. What is the relationship to that behavior and the rest of your responsibilities in life? Why not make hard lines of right and wrong and stigmatize some things and not others? Many decisions we make come from a place of Fear, how can we keep that in check and make better choices… especially when you see a loved one going down a path that can lead to self destruction. Peer pressure Peer pressure is real. Picking the “wrong friends” can expose you to things that you may never have experienced before and in a negative way. When it comes to teenagers, what are they getting from those relationships that they weren’t getting from their other peer group or more importantly not getting from their parents? How do you as a parent develop the same characteristic of their peer group (basic value: non-judgmental, non-shaming, non-blaming)? Trust. It’s more important that your kids trust you and that they can come back to you even if or even though they are doing things you disapprove of. You may even find that when you build that trust bridge of “I’ve been in situation like you before” the kid will look