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## Navigating Your Child's Education: Grades 9-12

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## [A Word on Teens and Addiction](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades9-12/a-word-on-teens-and-addiction)

 By [Buzz Inboden](https://discover.worthingtonchristian.com/grades9-12/author/buzz-inboden) on Oct 17, 2019 7:00 PM

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Each October, the National Family Partnership (formerly the National Federation of Parents for Drug Free Youth) has a "Red Ribbon Campaign" to raise awareness about drug use amongst teens.

Addictions come in all shapes and sizes.  Some are more sinister than others, cocaine verses chocolate for example.  Some are more acceptable than others, consider addiction to work compared with addiction to pornography.  But all come from being enslaved to the wrong master.  Often we are unaware of the fact that we have been shackled until we try to break loose.

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