Børn og unge: personlige og sociale emner: narkotika og stofmisbrug

Content warning. This book deals with depression, drug use, suicide, and grief.

A raw and bold memoir about abuse and addiction, and the power of expression and community that helped Stephanie Kuehnert, the author of Ballads of Suburbia and regular Rookie contributor, survive and thrive. Told in varied narrative styles, including journal entries, original illustration, and pages torn from her actual diaries and zines, this is the memoir of Stephanie's life as a struggling outsider who survived substance and relationship abuse to become a strong young woman after years and years trapped in a cycle that sometimes seemed to have no escape.

From award-winning author Sara Zarr comes a story of the small moments that show us who we are, and how family is not just something you're part of, but something you make.Lou and her family don't have much, but for Lou it's enough. Mom. Her sister, Casey. Their apartment in the city. Her best friend, Beth. It would be better if Dad could stop drinking and be there for her and Casey, and if they didn't have to worry about money all the time. But Lou doesn't need better--she only needs enough.What's enough for Lou, however, is not enough for Mom. Steve, Mom's boyfriend, isn't a bad guy, he's just...not what Lou is used to. And now, he and Mom are getting married, and that means moving. Packing up life as they've known it and storing it in Steve's garage. Lou will be separated from everything in her small but predictable life, farther from Dad than ever.Their last night in the city, Lou receives a mysterious birthday gift: A guitar, left for her by their front door. There's nothing saying who left it, but it must be from Dad. And as she leaves the only place she's ever known, she starts to believe that if she can learn how to play it, maybe she can bring a piece of him, and of her old life, home.

Once upon a time, far away within our Milky Way Galaxy, there existed a wondrous cloud of stardust called the Spiral Cloud Nebula. Within this nebula, lived a little group of sparkling beings called the Super Stars. All was fine in the Spiral Cloud Nebula until some of the Super Stars entered into the forbidden Empty Space. There they were faced with a challenge in which they had to make a choice as to whether or not to partake of a colorful shiny substance presented to them by a dark energy which dwelled within the Empty Space.The Super Stars can be read with your child or used during peer mentoring to open up discussion about the dangers of substance abuse. Education is powerful, and prevention through awareness is key. Our children need to be prepared and given tools like this book in order to fight the dragon of addiction.

“Nej, hold røgen nede i lungerne, ellers virker det ikke.”Hun plejede ikke at inhalere. Men så var der pludselig noget i hende, der var ligeglad med alt det, hendes mor havde sagt om at ryge hash. Man satte hjernen i stå. Man kunne blive psykotisk. Men ét hiv, det skadede vel ikke?SKÆV er en ungdomsroman, der handler om venskab, beruselse og hemmeligheder. Milles familie er flyttet til Singapore uden hende, men heldigvis får hun snart en ny veninde i Freja. Venskabet bliver Milles nye hjem, men der går ikke længe, før cigaretter, hash og stoffer bliver en del af hendes hverdag. Mille ryger kun sammen med Freja. Hun kan stoppe, når hun vil.SKÆV er den tredje ungdomsroman som forfatterparret Mette Egelund Olsen og Margrethe Schmidt har skrevet sammen, i 2018 udkom 'Fucking monster', og i 2020 udgav de 'Kan jeg stole på dig'.

Jeg blev hentet hjem af et familiemedlem med få ord om, at jeg skulle med hjem. På vejen hjem så jeg en masse biler med forskellige blink på og tænkte blot: Hold da op, hvad er der sket i byen?Mit liv tog en uventet drejning tilbage i mine tidlige teenageår, hvor alt simpelthen blev vendt op og ned på vores liv som familie.Jeg ved, at der mange ting, jeg havde gjort anderledes, hvis jeg kendte opskriften på forhånd, ting, jeg i dag stadigvæk fortryder, jeg gjorde, men desværre handlede jeg ikke ud fra, hvad hjernen sagde, men ud fra følelser og styring, som jeg desværre ikke selv havde magt til at håndtere korrekt og konstruktivt.Denne bog er om ulykken, der vendte min familie på hovedet, der ændrede mig som person og gjorde, jeg røg ud i et misbrug, som havde store konsekvenser for mit videre liv.

Children experiencing divorce are traumatized and confused. Divorce for any reason affects the entire family and many books on the market address divorce for children, but few exist that address divorce due to alcohol abuse. These children frequently experience supervised visitation or are not permitted to visit the affected parent in their new home or apartment. Visitation may often occur in the home of the custodial parent. Children of divorce feel they are to blame for the parent's divorce, fear they are no longer loved and don't understand why the affected parent has moved out of the home. Young children frequently don't voice these fears or concern, so they go unaddressed. Parents are equally traumatized by divorce and often do not see the emotional turmoil the young child may be experiencing. Reading this book with the child opens the door for expression of the feelings the child is experiencing and helps the child realize they are not the cause of the divorce and change in family dynamics. This book shows the parent abusing alcohol may not be a safe caregiver for the child, but still loves the child.

Includes an excerpt from The many half-lived lives of Sam Sylvester.

Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.

When Sparrow's mother is sent to rehab for opiod addiction, Sparrow is sent to live in a commune with her estranged Aunt where Sparrow begins to embrace their true gender identity.

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