I met Amy Sky last night...

..at an intimate engagement in support of the Parent Navigation Project. Amy's newest song's are inspired by her own personal triumph with mental illness. Amy's new CD is called awake & alive...view and listen below.

Family Navigation Project - Sunnybrook Hospital

Cartoon of how drugs affect the human brain...very cool!!

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/drugs/mouse.html

One amazing teen's story of recovery from addiction...

Research Stats on Continuing Care - Value of....

www.hazelden.org/web/public/document/bcrup_1208.pdf

% of young people in treatment with co-occurring disorders...

In 2010, 93 percent of young people between the ages of 14 and 25 in residential treatment at Hazelden in Plymouth, MN, had been diagnosed with co-occurring mental health and addiction issues. In order to provide effective addiction treatment, it is important to understand the interplay between the mental health diagnosis and addiction and treat the issues simultaneously.