Success Stories Story aired: Thursday, February 03, 2005
A teenage girl sinks into drug abuse and anonymous sex. A boy grapples with his rage and attempts suicide, while another is consumed by depression. These haunting stories and others are told in the new book "What It Takes to Pull Me through: Why Teenagers Get in Trouble and how Four of Them Got Out." It's written by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Marcus who visited these teens and many others at many others at the tAcademy at Swift River in western Massachusetts. It's a school for troubled kids and while the school's policy is not without controversy, Marcus highlights the school's successes.
