Family Teens
Support Group 

Family Teens Online 12 Step Group Meetings are currently being held on Sunday and Thursday at 8pm eastern time.

 

Miracles In Progress Family Teens Group is a support group for teenagers who are adversely affected by Substance Abuse within the family.  We are a 12 Step group that works the 12 Step program of recovery to heal from the pains that alcoholism or addiction has brought into our lives.

Please Join Us For  Group Meetings
On Sunday Night and Thursday Night at 8pm eastern Time!
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Is your parent, grandparent, brother, sister or other loved member of your family suffering from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction?

Does it bother you?  Are you feeling angry, sad, hurt, confused, or ashamed?  Do you need a safe place to talk about how someone else's alcoholism or addiction is affecting your life, without fear of repercussions?

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April

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 Please note: Miracles In Progress Family Teen Group

provides information to teens to teach them to make correct and healthy decisions!

Cigarettes Get Burned
Cancer sticks. Coffin nails.  Despite the harsh nicknames and surgeon general warnings, cigarettes remain alarmingly popular: More than 48 million Americans smoke.

Men who smoke increase their risk of death from lung cancer by more than 22 times, and their risk of death from bronchitis and emphysema by nearly 10 times.

Women who smoke are12 times more likely to die of lung cancer and 10 times more likely to die of bronchitis or emphysema than non-smokers.

Smoking triples the risk of dying from heart disease among middle-aged men and women. The World Health Organization estimates that smoking causes about 17 percent of all deaths from heart disease.

Lifelong smokers have a one in two chance of dying from a smoking-related disease. When a smoker dies from a smoking-related disease, he or she loses an average of 12 years of life.

As if that weren't enough, smoking is a source of other risks that, while less grave than heart disease or cancer, are worth considering:

Statistics show that, more than ever, American smokers want to quit. But teenage smoking shows no sign of decline.

That smoking is bad for your health isn't exactly headline news. But even if you think you've heard it all, keep reading. Provocative new research is stirring debate in areas we thought were settled. Those low-tar, additive-free, "natural" cigarettes are better for you than a Marlboro Red - or are they? Secondhand smoke causes cancer -- or does it? Nicotine is addictive, but not deadly -- or is it? Coupled with the U.S. refusal to sign the WHO anti-tobacco agreement, research news can get lost in a haze of competing information (and interests). We're here to clear the air and introduce you to the army of researchers who are hustling to help you quit.

But first, a cigarette primer
The need for nicotine is an old story. Before Camels, there were pipes, chew, snuff, and hand-rolled cigars. Commercial cigarettes only became widely available after the arrival of the cigarette-rolling machine in 1881. Now, mass produced cigarettes are the most popular vehicles for tobacco consumption -- and they are at the heart of the tobacco debate.

The cigarette: Dried tobacco leaves rolled into a neat paper tube, right? Wrong. One cigarette has up to 4,000 ingredients. One of these, of course, is tobacco. But only some of the tobacco in a cigarette comes from the leaf of a tobacco plant. Much of it is a paper-like product made from mashed tobacco stems and other extra parts of the plant.

This tobacco, known as "reconstituted tobacco" or "homogenized sheet tobacco," is artificially infused by manufacturers with nicotine and a few -- 600 or so -- chemical additives. Among the additives are nasties like ammonia (which helps deliver nicotine) and benign ingredients like chocolate (which masks tobacco's natural, unpleasant flavor).

Cigarette manufacturers would have you believe the tobacco in your cigarette is as pure as the lush tobacco plants in these Appalachian hills. But most commercial cigarette-makers "enhance" tobacco with hundreds of dangerous additives.

Cigarettes are also stuffed with "puffed" or "expanded" tobacco, which allows for more cigarettes per pound of tobacco and less tar in the smoke. Sounds good, but consider this: To plump the tobacco, manufacturers soak it with Freon (the stuff that makes your car, home and refrigerator cold) and ammonia before freeze-drying.

Even the paper from a manufactured cigarette contains chemicals, including titanium oxide, which speeds up burning and may contribute to the particular ferocity of fires triggered by burning cigarettes.

So... is it still COOL to smoke?

How can Miracles In Progress Family Teens Group Help Me?

Here, on MIP, you will find other teens, who are affected by someone else's alcoholism or addiction, sharing not only the pain of such a hard situation, but also their hopes, dreams, experiences and strengths. We have a message board, resource listings, fun links and a chat room hosted by the most loving people.
The pain of having a family member caught in the mere of alcoholism or addiction is one of the most severe suffering one ever endures. It effects the whole family. Not just the person who is alcoholic or addict. Our well-being is adversely affected by someone else's alcohol or drug abuse.  The pain can be overpowering.  It is agonizing.  It is NORMAL. Everyone’s family is unique but everyone’s pain is the same. Alcoholism or Addiction is a friend to no one.
What is Family Teens Group? It's a place where peers in an online chat room environment teaches that you have "permission to feel, heal and recover". A place where you learn that the emotions you can't understand are seen in a "mirror image" of someone describing exactly what you are going through, and you say to yourself, "that's ME they are describing". So you learn you are not crazy - that the thoughts of the alcoholic or addict, the home, family, etc, that consumes you from the moment you wake from sleep, that finally comes after endless waking hours, are not only yours. You don't have a monopoly on the fears, hurts, anger, disappointments, or shame. It's a place where you find that every word you heard in the beginning and could not believe yourself, suddenly are spoken by you to someone else you see that is in pain and you realize, "that's ME talking" ....now it becomes a place where you have learned that by receiving the support and understanding that helped you get through the pain (of having a alcoholic or addict family member) you are now helping someone who is where you have been. It's a place where you CAN recover from the pain, move away from old survival skills and learn new living skills. 
It’s a place of belonging.

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Find a safe environment. If you find yourself avoiding your house as much as possible, or if you're thinking about running away, consider whether you feel in danger at home. If you feel that the situation at home is becoming dangerous, you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at (800) 799-SAFE. And never hesitate to dial 911 if you think you or another family member is in immediate danger.


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