Virgil Miller Newton Quotes:

Adolescence in my growing up period was truly "Happy Days," the title of a TV show connotating the quality of this life period.

source: - "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

Topics: Growing Up, Tv Shows, Quality

As the therapeutic relationship is established and progress occurs in problem areas, the therapist can "lead" and "push" the adolescent toward abstract reasoning skill.

source: - "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

Topics: Skills, Progress, Problem

Second, I use inference from technical studies and theories in order to provide practical information for therapists. Those thoughts are several steps removed from scientific validity.

source: - "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

Topics: Order, Use, Information

If his/her siblings and parents are not treated and he/she is strong enough to continue the recovery, a sibling will take up the "druggie" role.

source: - "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

Topics: Strong, Sibling, Recovery, Druggies

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

source: - "How to Stop Your Relatives from Driving You Crazy: Strategies for coping with 'Challenging' Relatives". Book by Denise Lang, 1992.

Topics: Children, Sibling, Addiction, Older Sibling

Drug-use is a terminal disease.

source: - "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

Topics: Drug, Disease, Use, Terminal Disease

Our teenage "druggies" are habituated to drugs rather than addicted. While beer and other alcoholic beverages are preferred drugs, kids have simply not used alcohol long enough to become addicted. The other drug of preference - ***** - is not addictive.

source: - "'Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

Topics: Teenage, Kids, Beer, Druggies

A certain group of adolescents evidence clear "druggie" behavior and attributes some time before they actually begin drug use.

source: - "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

Topics: Drug, Groups, Use, Druggies

Careful listening to current country and western and rock music with the help of an interpreter for coded phrases shows that young people are hearing a constant stream of messages about getting high, feeling good, going on trips, and using drugs of all kinds with all methods.

source: - "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, Volume 6, 1983.

Topics: Country, Rocks, People

Our own unresolved authority problems from our youth sometimes get transferred to our youthful patients, because we are still "covert adolescent rebels." In subtle ways, we encourage the adolescent patient to rebel towards parents, school authorities, and society in general.

source: - "Adolescence: Guiding Youth Through the Perilous Ordeal". Book by Miller Newton, 1995.

Topics: School, Parent, Rebel, Covert

Second, the only proven technique for treatment for chemically dependent people involves use of a spiritual program of self-change.

source: - "The Teenage Drug Epidemic". El Paso Physician, vol 6, pp. 5-6, 1983.

Topics: Spiritual, Self, People, Self Change