[Editor’s Note: Clancy Martin is the author of the novel, How to Sell. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and London Review of Books. Martin’s essay, “The Drunk’s Club” (http://bit.ly/1ipLo9R), which appeared in the January 2011 issue of Harper’s Magazine, described his own experience with addiction.]
A teen is using substances—how do you decide what kind of treatment makes sense? Outpatient therapy? A more structured program? We’re breaking it down.