Bryna Godar, Author at Greenfield Recorder

Paige Petri, a student, poses at Horizon High School, a school that allows teens to get counseling and drug testing while they study alongside other recovering addicts, in Madison, Wis. Petri said she started smoking pot and getting high on cough medicine two years ago. Now a student at Horizon, she said she expects to graduate in a couple of years and that it likely wouldn’t have been possible if not for the Madison school.

Recovery schools for addicted teens on the rise across the U.S.

by Bryna Godar Associated PressJune 19, 2016

MADISON, Wis. — Preston Grundy started drinking at 14 to escape from his depression. He soon moved on to marijuana, Xanax, Adderall and cocaine, smoking pot when he woke each day and snorting pills in the bathroom between classes.The Brooklyn Park,…