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Cary Quashen, the founder and CEO of Action Family Counseling, speaking during 'Teens Talk Drugs' symposium.

Personal Hardships Shared By Recovering Youth From Action Family Counseling At ‘Teens Talk Drugs’ Symposium

The stigmas that are associated with drug and alcohol addiction often times make the subject difficult to talk about, but three recovering youths from Action Family Counseling shared their battles at Wednesday night’s “Teens Talk Drugs” Symposium.


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Parents took their teenagers and younger children to attend a panel at The Centre that featured experiences of addiction and a conversation with Cary Quashen, the founder and CEO of Action Family Counseling.

Quashen started his discussion by asking the room filled with guests and people fighting addiction to bow their heads.

“We’re doing that for the six people that are going to die during this symposium from drug addiction,” Quashen said. “Every 19 minutes in this country someone dies from an accidental drug overdose.”

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“We can’t be burying people every 19 minutes,” he added. “These are our kids and they’re dying.”

The City of Santa Clarita hosted the symposium, which is an annual drug awareness event.

A common theme for the night surrounded the idea of contracts that young people make to not take drugs, but can consecutively be broken and lead to drug addiction.

Guests were also allowed to fill out anonymous question cards that were answered by the panel.

The community can help stop the need for drugs by hosting more events where people get involved and gain more knowledge about addiction, according to Quashen.

“We have to be doing things like this now,” said Quashen. “I’m going to scream as loud as I can. The problem is when I do it, it’s me. When kids are doing it, people go, ‘Whoa, this might be my kid’ or the young kids can go, ‘This can happen to me,’ so it really touches everybody. It’s something we just have to do.”

Action Family Counseling is a Santa Clarita drug and alcohol rehab center. Action Family Counseling has drug and alcohol residential treatment locations in Santa Clarita, Piru and Bakersfield, as well as intensive drug and alcohol outpatient programs in Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Ventura, Pasadena and Bakersfield. Action Family Counseling supports and reinforces changes in behavior patterns so that adolescents and adults, or clients and their families, can fully indoctrinate the philosophies and principles needed to remain abstinent and stabilized for life.

Action Family Counseling

22722 Soledad Canyon Road

Santa Clarita, CA 91350

Office: 661-297-8691

24-Hour Helpline: 800-367-8336

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Personal Hardships Shared By Recovering Youth From Action Family Counseling At ‘Teens Talk Drugs’ Symposium

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