What Are These Treatment Programs Like?

Question by RadicalRabbit: What are these treatment programs like?
My parents are threatening to send me to a drug abuse treatment center or a behavioral treatment center. I am a 14 year old boy. Can someone explain to me what this menas. How long will I be in it, What will I do there, blah blah blah etc?

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