Jay was a nationally ranked tennis player, a good student, well-groomed. His parents had no idea he was going to school and to practice -- walking right past their faces -- stoned on prescription drugs.
"Percocets, Oxycontin, Xanax, Vicodin, Ritalin, Adderall," he said, reeling off a list of just some of the drugs he tried since he began abusing drugs at age 13.
Jay, now 17, said he had "black eyes" and "lost a lot of weight" and probably hadn't showered in a month when he checked into The Right Step, a small drug and alcohol treatment clinic in Houston. At first, he didn't want to be there.
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