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There Is No Such Thing As Drug and Alcohol Treatment For Adolescents, with Robert Schwebel and Lynn Smith

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When Robert Schwebel looked around the country in 1990 for adolescent substance use treatment programs, he found something troubling: watered-down versions of 12-step programs designed for adults. These programs weren’t built with adolescent development in mind, and they weren’t working. What emerged from Robert’s work became The Seven Challenges, a fundamentally different approach that recognizes