How to Help your Friend against Alcohol and Drug Abuse

What To Do When Your Parents Won't Quit Drinking
About 11 million American children have alcoholic parents, according to the National Association for Children of Alcoholics.
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Fake ID's are Contributing to More Than 1400 Deaths
TA3 fights Fake ID and Fake driver licences sites. Underage drinking accounts for the death of over 1400 college students being killed annually. 600,000 college students who have been drinking assault students each year. there are over 70,000 cases of sexual assault and date rape reported each year where drinking was involved.
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Getting Help is the First Step
Listing over 30 help organizations: Underage Drinking - Teen drinking and alcoholism - Reporting fake id templates - Troubled Teen Help
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Alcoholism - How to help your friend
Because alcoholism is a disease and not a behavior, chances are that you won't be able to change your friend's actions, but you can show your love and support.
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Sobering Statistics
More than 10 million current drinkers in the United States are between the ages of 12-20. - On average, young people begin drinking at 13.1 years of age. - By the time they are high school seniors, more than 80 percent have used alcohol and approximately 62 percent have been drunk.
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Do the drinking test! Do I drink too much?
Sometimes a habit becomes so familiar, we have a hard time detecting signs that the once-comfortable pattern has in fact become a problem. This quick and confidential test can help you determine if your drinking habits put you at risk of alcohol abuse
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Stopping Teen Age Drinking and the sales of Fake IDs and Fake drivers licenses - Welcome to TA3!

We fight sales of fake ID papers like fake ID cards and fake drivers licenses.
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Dewine, Dodd introduce bill to prevent underage drinking

July 21, 2006

Fake ID cards 'openly available'

June 22, 2006

Pizza delivery people and hotel clerks to help cut into underage drinking

May 27, 2006

Police support new Fake ID card scheme

April 3, 2006

Senate passes law hoping to ban Internet fake IDs

February 13, 2006

Fake ID ring cracked

November 6, 2005

Underage drinking worse at prom and spring breaks

January 23, 2005

Teen drinking shocker - Underage drinking troublespot

Januari 3, 2005

Identity fraud - Fighting back on Fake ID fraud

November 27, 2004

Fake driver licenses easy to obtain

September 9, 2004

Teens can get fake IDs in a few keystrokes on Web

May 17, 2004

Teenage drinking is a widespread epidemic in the United States

April 23, 2004

Harmful effects of underage drinking

December 9, 2003

TA3 Mission

Teenage drinking is a serious problem with real consequences. Our hopes are to help you, and the ones you love, to avoid the pain and suffering caused by alcohol addiction. We hope you find this site helpful as our desire is to help, encourage and support you and your friends to a new found happiness and a clean and sober lifestyle.

Helping Your Friends

Because alcoholism is a disease and not a behavior, chances are that you won't be able to change your friend's actions, but you can show your love and support.

You're not betraying your friend by seeking to find him or her help. Keeping "the secret" is part of the disease of alcoholism and it allows the problems to get worse. As with any disease, it's still possible to be a friend while recognizing that he or she has alcoholism and it's not disloyal to seek help in dealing with the problems your friend's drinking creates for them or you.

Understand that teenage children of alcoholics are at a higher risk of becoming alcoholics themselves. Acknowledging the problem and reaching out for support can help ensure that your friend’s future does not repeat their parent's past.

If you want to be proactive in helping your friend, Alateen is a fellowship of young Al-Anon members, usually teenagers, whose lives have been affected by someone else's drinking. If you have a friend that you feel is abusing alcohol and becoming a danger to themselves or others, please do not hesitate to call Alateen @ 888-4AL-ANON, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 6 pm ET.

What Alateen is all about

• Helping families and friends of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend

• Alateen is Al-Anon’s recovery program for young people

• Alateen groups are sponsored by Al-Anon members

• Sharing experiences, strengths and hopes with each other

• Discussing their difficulties

• Learning effective ways to cope with their problems

• Encouraging one another

• Helping each other understand the principles of the Al-Anon program

• Learning how to use Alateen's Twelve Traditions*

• Compulsive drinking is a disease

• They can detach themselves emotionally from the drinker's problems while continuing to love the person.

• They are not the cause of anyone else's drinking or behavior

• They cannot change or control anyone but themselves

• They have spiritual and intellectual resources with which to develop their own potentials, no matter what happens at home

• They can build satisfying and rewarding life experiences for themselves

Alateen's Twelve Traditions

• Our common welfare should come first; personal progress for the greatest number depends upon unity.

• For our group purpose there is but one authority -- a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern.

• The only requirement for membership is that there be a problem of alcoholism in a relative or friend. The teenage relatives of alcoholics when gathered together for mutual aid, may call themselves an Alateen Group provided that, as a group, they have no other affiliation.

• Each group should be autonomous, except in matters affecting other Alateen and Al-Anon Family Groups or AA as a whole.

• Each Alateen Group has but one purpose: to help other teenagers of alcoholics. We do this by practicing the Twelve Steps of AA ourselves and by encouraging and understanding the members of our immediate families.

• Alateens, being part of Al-Anon Family Groups, ought never endorse, finance or lend our name to any outside enterprise, lest problems of money, property and prestige divert us from our primary spiritual aim. Although a separate entity, we should always cooperate with Alcoholics Anonymous.

• Every group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside contributions.

• Alateen Twelfth-Step work should remain forever nonprofessional, but our service centers may employ special workers.

• Our groups, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service boards or committees directly responsible to those they serve.

• The Alateen Groups have no opinion on outside issues; hence our name ought never be drawn into public controversy.

• Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than promotion; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of press, radio, TV and films. We need guard with special care the anonymity of all AA members.

• Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our Traditions, ever reminding us to place principles above personalities.

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