To find a family counselor knowledgeable on the subject of drug abuse in adolescence, parents can call their local mental health association, to prevention programs or drug and alcohol hospitals and local treatment and get names Experienced professionals can recommend that those institutions.

The advice, in itself, can be used to support various proposals:
• To facilitate regular meetings where family members can speak in complete safety because the consultant is there to help manage communications, bringing order to the confusion, mediate disputes, monitor agreements and anticipate problems that even the changes Useful can create.
• To support parents to adopt healthy attitudes with a child who has too much personal power within the family and to support a child who has to express legitimate concerns to parents who ignore or do not give him credit.
• To introduce foreign funds into the family when necessary, for example at a hospital or a legal subpoena.