You are more than right but many young people are too young to get into mind altering drugs of any kind. The counselor my sister-in-law took him to said if he could wait until he was 18-20, he’d be in a much better position to handle his emotional responses, etc. but his dad had just died in his sleep of a heart attack and that also was and additional emotional burden to deal with at age 14.
That is so sad.