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It’s difficult enough raising adolescent children, and then you discover the reason for their recent behavior issues is due to alcohol abuse or drug abuse. You cringe at the thought of admitting them to alcohol and drug treatment because, beyond the shock you feel, it seems like yet another burden to tackle. But it is important, and you know it, and telemedicine may be the solution for your hesitation.

Adolescent alcohol abuse and drug abuse can tear the closest families apart. It starts with failing grades, behavior problems, and new friends who give parents that “bad feeling”. A gradual increase of difficult situations explodes when parents discover substance abuse among their youth, and exhaustion generally follows. So many parents will just want to give up. Adolescent alcohol and drug treatment seems beyond the breaking point.

Although it is logical to make an attempt at solving a problem, procrastination takes over for most parents of substance abusers due to stigma. “What will the extended family/friends/neighbors think?” When they get past that hindering feeling and call an alcohol and drug treatment center, they learn about the time and emotion involved and put it off again. All the while, their teens are going further down a road toward alcoholism or drug addiction, crime, injury, and possibly death. Time is of the essence.

Tarzana Treatment Centers in Los Angeles offers telemedicine as an answer to both the stigma and time issues. Teens can attend counseling sessions via video conference from home, using a computer with a webcam. Parents can attend family meetings in the same manner. We even have the technology to conduct group sessions over a secured internet connection. This cuts the time and cost of travel to our locations, and saves you the need to explain the daily family trips to others.

Our providers use the TherapyLiveVisit application, powered by MDLiveCare, which works in any web browser. If you have a computer with internet access and a webcam, you can use Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or any other browser to access the application. LiveVisit operates behind several layers of encryption, so you can be certain that your consultations will be completely confidential.

The term “telemedicine” encompasses all forms of health care including mental health treatment and addiction treatment. In many cases of youth alcohol abuse and drug abuse, there are co-occurring mental health disorders that had gone previously undetected. Tarzana Treatment Centers is recognized as a leader in providing mental health treatment to adolescents. Our telemedicine staff includes addiction counselors and mental health professionals, as well as medical professionals.

Tarzana Treatment Centers in Los Angeles provides a full array of health care services including adult and youth alcohol and drug treatment. We specialize in treatment for mental health and substance use disorders, and have two primary medical care clinics in the San Fernando Valley and Antelope Valley. If you or a loved one needs help with alcohol dependence, drug addiction, or co-occurring mental health disorders, please call us now at 888-777-8565 or contact us here.

Southern California Locations for Alcohol and Drug Treatment
Tarzana Treatment Centers has locations all over Southern California in Los Angeles County. Other than our central location in Tarzana, we have facilities in Lancaster in the Antelope Valley, Long Beach, and in Northridge and Reseda in the San Fernando Valley.