Substance Abuse: Case Study

My Interviewee is Liz Thompson. She is a substance abuse therapist that works with children and adults about different substance abuse and seeks their help. She is an example of an active citizen because she is willing to work long hours and stressful days to help the others in her community with a big problem that happens now a day. She also gives back to the community by taking hours to help children with school projects like this one and also visits schools about this type of Issue.

Liz went into college to be a therapist. During her few years many clients explained of how they use substance abuse to help them cope. She went back to school and got her master's degree and also learned about how to be a substance abuse therapist. She believed that If it comes up in therapy, “I would rather have the knowledge then not to have it at all.” She explained by learning about substance abuse it make her a better person in general to show she knows this type of knowledge but it …show more content…
She doesn't know what is going to happen in the future with this problem, but she does have some hopes. She goes with a lot of people when she says she wants this problem to end. In the future we need the community to come together as one whole group. Mental illness is a horrible thing that people have to deal with, but we can't fix the problem of mental health if people keep using these dangerous self harmful drugs.
During Liz's past ten years of being a therapist, she has learned many key lessons to life. One of the biggest things that she has learned was the fact that a way that most people in this community try to help themselves is this usage of substances. This work has affected them because when it comes to therapy with something this harsh to talk about, you never know what type of difficulty a person has in there life and if they aren't willing to help it can affect the work of how they treat themselves and their