Teen Alcohol Abuse

Angels at Risk: Damage Control Works in the Kindest of Ways

Susie Spain | Posted 05.10.2012

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Susie Spain

Teens who do not have dinner with their families five to seven times per week are twice as likely to have used alcohol and 1.5 times likelier to have used marijuana, as compared to teens who do participate in family dinners.

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Angels at Risk: Stand Up to Addiction

Susie Spain | Posted 03.20.2012

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Susie Spain

Angels at Risk is building a web between schools, rehabilitation centers and prevention programs. We continue to make a difference in the quality of our community, both in preventing short-term crisis and in maintaining long-term social stability.

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Teen Drinking: Do Parents Know The Facts?

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 06.20.2011

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Helene Pavlov, M.D.

Should parents introduce alcohol to help children drink more responsibly, or does early exposure lead to an increase in alcohol abuse?

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Anxious Teens More Likely To Abuse Alcohol

msn.com | Amber Angelle | Posted 11.17.2011

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Although it was known that anxious teens often self-medicate with alcohol, a group of Finnish researchers, led by Sari Fröjd at the University of Tam...

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'Outlaw Mother's Milk' Says Drug Czar

Don Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don Parker

After declaring on Wednesday in Fresno that "marijuana is dangerous and has no medicinal benefit," Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House Office...

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Why Harm Reduction Makes Sense: These Three Things I Know are True

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

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Stanton Peele

How many adult substance abusers abstain? By now, we are inured to the frequent visits to rehab by problem drinking and drug abusing entertainment figures.

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Spring Break -- Just Say No.

Tracey Jackson | Posted 11.17.2011

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Tracey Jackson

These kids may be on their way to college but when they board those flights to Spring Break, passport and parent's Amex in hand, they are often still seventeen-years-old.

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