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Columbia University's National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse found that most smokers begin smoking before age 18, and that smokers aged 12 to 17 are more likely drink alcohol than nonsmokers – 59 percent compared to 11 percent. Kids who are regular smokers by age 12 are more than three times more likely to report binge drinking than those who never smoked – 31 percent compared to 9 percent. Binge drinking is defined as having five drinks or more in a row. Heavy alcohol consumption and especially binge drinking are affecting more kids at a younger age than ever before, and drug rehab facilities for children and teens are a growing sector of the drug rehab landscape.

The Columbia University report found that smokers ages 12 to 17 are also more likely to meet the diagnostic definition for drug abuse or dependence than nonsmokers, at 26 percent compared to 2 percent – a huge difference that is carried forward into adulthood. The numbers of adult addicts in drug rehab programs who are also smokers far outnumber the nonsmokers, according to a report earlier this year.

The new report included the not-surprising news that marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug among teenagers, something we’re often hearing about in one report or another, including one just this week about hundreds of Canadian teenagers entering drug rehab, most of them for marijuana! And government data from 2005 shows that 7 percent of kids aged 12 to 17 use marijuana. Do you know how many kids that is? It’s millions! And of these millions of pot-smoking teens, cigarette smokers are 13 times more likely to use marijuana than those who do not smoke. Which implies that treatment such as drug detox and drug rehab is way more likely to be in the future of kids who smoke, compared to nonsmokers.

And finally, the younger a kid is when he or she starts smoking, the greater the risk to experiment with addictive and dangerous substances, the report said. Children who start smoking by age 12 are more than three times more likely to binge on alcohol, nearly 15 times more likely to smoke marijuana and almost seven times more likely to use other drugs such as heroin and cocaine.

Parents, and kids, do we have your attention? Sure, no one goes to drug rehab for smoking cigarettes – but maybe the kids should, if they’re unable to quit on their own. If there’s no drug rehab for smokers available, there are plenty of quit-smoking programs available through schools, hospitals, health care organizations, on-line services, or even a local doctor.

Anything a parent can do to help keep kids out of a drug rehab program in the future is time well spent. And helping your kids avoid cigarette smoking or quit the nicotine habit altogether is worth the effort if it means fewer addictions and no drug or alcohol rehab in the future.

Drug Rehab For Teens

In 1980, a special program was developed for doctors with drug and alcohol abuse problems. The program allows doctors to continue practicing while undergoing alcohol or drug rehab. However, according to the Medical Board of California (MBC), five status reports on the program have proven it to be inefficient and dangerous to patients. The MBC has decided to cancel the program as of next June. Unless the program is extended by legislation, doctors with alcohol and drug abuse problems may then have their licenses revoked with zero tolerance. Doctors abusing drugs or alcohol would be wise to take a leave of absence and get into a successful alcohol or drug rehab program rather than take that risk.

The program requires alcohol or drug testing, group therapy and psychotherapy sessions as well as a designated independent monitor who oversees each doctor's practice. However, according to status reports, these requirements are easy to mess with: sometimes the monitor is one of the doctor's employees who has been ordered to lie, or no one ensures that the doctor is attending therapy sessions, or the urine tests are done on a predictable schedule so the doctor can also schedule his ingestion of alcohol or drugs accordingly.

One doctor enrolled in the five-year program said he was able to fool the system for years and almost “graduated” while he was still using drugs.

One of the major reasons for the program's failure may be that doctors who continue to practice while undergoing alcohol or drug abuse treatment do not have access to long-term inpatient drug rehab, which is the most successful.

The hearing that motivated the MBC to finally end the alcohol and drug rehab program included testimony from 10 patients who were harmed by enrolled doctors. One woman said she was disfigured by plastic surgery she later found out was inappropriate for her condition. The plastic surgeon had two drunk driving arrests and several reports of negligence from patients, but was still allowed to continue in practice.

Over $500,000 has been spent recently to fix the problems found in the first four reports, but state auditors are not impressed with the improvements. “The medical board ... has not provided consistently effective oversight,” the auditor, Elaine Howle, wrote in her report. Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, an attorney with the University of San Diego's Center for Public Interest Law, called the program “a sham and a travesty.”

The program treats 400 doctors every year. Currently 249 are enrolled. Of those, 140 were ordered into the program by the medical board, and 99 entered the program because they were encouraged to do so by family, friends or peers.

There are 35,000 doctors in California and they all worked hard and long to get where they are. California has many successful alcohol and drug rehab programs. If you know a doctor who is abusing drugs or alcohol, get them into a successful alcohol or

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