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HEADLINE: OUR NEIGHBORS
BYLINE: TOM VESTERGAARD / PAUL SCHWARTZMAN
PUBLISHED: August 5, 1986, Tuesday; Page C-4 (17 in.)
SECTION: NEWS
COLUMN: OUR NEIGHBORS
TEXT:
     Adolescents present unique problems when being treated for drug and alcohol abuse. That was the consensus among participants at a seminar conducted at Holy Name Hospital in Teaneck. Several of the nation's experts on adolescent drug treatment were on hand.

     "All kids in this country are growing up in a society that seeks instant chemical relief," said Martha Morrison, MD, a director at the Ridgeview Institute in Smyrna, Ga.

     Miller Newton, PhD, president and clinical director of the Hackensack based organization, KIDS of Bergen County, also took part.

     Participants said that teen-agers are subject to peer pressure. The young people also are more closely tied to family problems and less able to understand standard self-help concepts.

     All of the treatment programs discussed at the seminar incorporate some form of the methods used by Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous. As part of the recovery process, the addict is encouraged to call on a "higher power," whether that be the power of love or God.

     Videotapes, audiotapes, and a monograph of the seminar are available. For information, call KIDS of Bergen County at 487-4100.

     College students are getting first-hand experience in the pediatrics field. Four area residents are taking part in the Summer Scholars Program at Hackensack Medical Center's Institute for Child Development.

     The program includes direct clinical observation of a variety of developmental and behavioral problems, including mental retardation, genetic disorders, and learning disabilities.

     The students will write papers about what they've learned, and they will be graded on their performance. Most are receiving college credit for their work at the hospital.

     Taking part are Jeffrey Gudin of Bardonia, N.Y., a student at Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck; Michelle Hozer of Fort Lee, who attends Fairfield (Conn.) University; Michael Szwerc, a Mahwah student attending Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.; and Deborah Young of Englewood Cliffs, who attends Vassar College in  Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

     Glenn Wahlgren, a graduate of Ridgefield Memorial High School, has received a doctor of astronomy degree from Ohio State University. He plans to work at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.

     Susan Tiffany of Leonia has been named to the Trinity College faculty honors list. The 1984 Leonia High School graduate is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tiffany.

     Patricia LaCarrubba is participating in the Boston University Summer Theatre Institute's Teachers of Theatre Program on a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. The North Bergen resident is a coordinator of the Hudson County Teen-Arts Center.

     Dawn Taffaro, a North Bergen student attending Kutztown (Pa.) University, has been selected to participate in an exchange program at the Buckinghamshire College of Higher Education in England.

     The daughter of Joseph and Joanne Taffaro, she is a 1984 graduate of St. Cecilia High School in Englewood.

     Scott Anagnoste, a Cliffside Park student who recently was graduated from the Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood, has won a National Merit Scholarship.

     The honor student plans to attend Princeton University in the fall. He is the son of Berta and Sorin Anagnoste.

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