CRC Health Corp. and its online affiliate, eGetgoing, are launching the nation's first Internet-based, interactive audio and video drug and alcohol treatment and counseling program for teens.

   Tests show teens love this approach -- they say "teenGetgoing," which has private interactive video and Internet technology, is "cool," according to the CRC Health Corp.

   The Household Survey, recently released by the federal government, finds nearly one-fourth of eighth graders say they have been drunk and 11 percent of kids ages 12 to 17 used illegal drugs last year, CRC says in a statement. 
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