About Tim Titus

My career in Adolescent Chemical Dependency began in 1975.  I have a Master’s Degree in Public Health and am the author of the Titus Risk Chart, a tool used to assess a young person’s  degree of risk of developing a drug problem. I’ve worked in schools, treatment centers and in the community.

I  assumed we had made a significant difference in reducing teen drug related problems, but in the past 34 years things have not changed. Kids are still at risk and they still love getting high. Originally I thought that “loving to get high” was a small part of the at-risk equation. But now I’m convinced that it is the most significant part of why young people get high and why so many of them end up becoming chemically dependent.

Part of this conclusion is professional but it is also personal. My wife and I are the parents of a son who loves to get high. Getting high was so important to him that he was able to keep it a secret from us for three years.  An intervention by the police and his school revealed his extensive drug use. He is now grown and is finding success in life, but it was his skill at keeping his drug use a secret that impressed upon me this most important lesson in the power of the loving to get high syndrome ™.

Hopefully, this blog will provide you with insight and understanding about a very serious problem and the related best kept secret.

Please contact me at coacht@usinternet.com.