GROWING UP IN a single-parent home, Nicole watched her mother struggle with addiction to drugs and alcohol. By age ten, Nicole had already been drunk and had begun stealing money from her mom to buy alcohol. By thirteen, she was in treatment for alcoholism herself. "I know what can happen, and I'm scared," she told a reporter. "All the time, I think, I'm only thirteen and I have to put away all that fun— the only fun I know how to have."1 Nicole is a teen addict. Mike fits the stereotype most people have of an adult heroin addict. In and out of jail, he sometimes lived on the streets, curled up in a doorway at night. He spent his days looking for a "fix" to satisfy the intense craving he felt for the drug. But what...