The following questions are related to ‘Drug Abuse’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I work in a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens and single young women. Just recently we had a resident who was staying with us; she was a sixteen-year-old who was about 7 months into her pregnancy. This young woman had a history of jumping around through foster care and group homes and [...]
Q: I desperately need advice on what the next step is to take for my youngest brother. This all began with his lying about graduating from college, were he was 2 classes shy. He lived with my parents for a year with no job and isolated himself in his room.
He ended up stealing money [...]
Q: A friend of mine shows the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. He believes people are drugging him, hacking into his computer, etc. He has a history of drug use (I think mainly cocaine). He has lost 2 jobs because of this already and has threatened to commit suicide. However, he doesn’t
believe he needs help and [...]
Q: I’m really in need of some help. In February 2007, I had a terrible reaction to some cannabis I had smoked to try and help me recover from a traumatic time I was having. I haven’t smoked since, and it wasn’t hard to give up as I wasn’t exactly a recreational user. I have [...]
Q: I was raised by a heroin addict and a paranoid, delusional mother. They beat and verbally abused me constantly. My mother said “you deserve it. You’re possessed!” My father never hit her, just me. She told me that she knows how to beat me without leaving marks. She made me drink turpentine with sugar [...]
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