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Teen Alcohol Abuse

Helping Your Teen Make Safe, Smart Decisions on Prom Night

Carleton Kendrick | Posted 04.22.2013 | Parents
Read More: Teen Alcohol Abuse, Prom, Teen-Safety, Parenting, Car Accidents, Teenagers, Teens, Parents-Teens, Underage Drinking, Parents News
Carleton Kendrick

For parents, the primary prom-related concerns aren't financial. Our biggest prom worries are the risky behaviors associated with proms, most specifically driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, and unsafe sex.

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Nearly 1 In 5 High Schoolers Drink, Smoke, Use Drugs During School

Posted 08.23.2012 | Home
Read More: Drug Use, High School Students Survey, Tobacco Use High School, Video, Underage Drinking, Teen Drug Use, High School Students, Marijuana Use, High-School-Drugs, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Teen Marijuana Use, Recreational Drug Use, Home News

About 17 percent of American high school students are drinking, smoking or using drugs during the school day, according to a new study by the National...

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

Susie Spain | Posted 07.10.2012 | Impact
Read More: Teen Alcohol Abuse, Parenting, Family Dinner Table Talk, Teen Drug Abuse, Teen Drug Use, Family Dinners, Teen Drinking, Impact News
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 | Impact
Read More: Drug Use, Santa Monica High School, Nonprofit Organizations, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Use, Impact News
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 | Home
Read More: Teen Drinking, Underage Drinking, Teen Alcohol, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Teenagers Drinking, Healthy Living, Addiction and Recovery, Healthy Living Health News, Home News
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 | Healthy Living
Read More: Study Teen Drinking, Anxiety Teen Drinking, Addiction & Recovery, Teen Alcohol Anxiety, Teen Drinking Anxiety, Anxiety Teen Alcohol, Teen Alcohol Abuse, How to Deal With Anxiety, Teen Drinking Study, Anxiety, Healthy Living News

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 | Comedy
Read More: Mother's Milk, Nurses, Marijuana, American Academy of HIV Medicine, American Public Health Association, Institute of Medicine, Medical Marijuana, Science, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Political Humor, War on Science, Gil Kerlikowske, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Teenagers, Teen Tobacco Abuse, Drunk Driving, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, American Nurses Association, Seattle Police Chief, Fresno Bee, Drug Czar, Drug War, Doctors, Political Satire, Drug Policy, Tobacco, Republican War on Science, Legalize Marijuana, Lymphoma Foundation of America, Comedy News
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 | Healthy Living
Read More: Youth, Underage Drinking, Harm Reduction, Drugs, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Drug Use, High School Students Survey, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug Czar, American Teen, Adhd, High School, Drug Abuse, Substances, Health, Healthy Living News
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 | Healthy Living
Read More: Teenager, Parenting, Spoilt, Parenting Advice, Alcohol, Teens, Underaged Drinking, Natalie Holloway, Teen-Parent Conflict, Teen Drug Abuse, Teens Parents, Alcohol-Related Arrest, Teen Alcohol Abuse, Binge Drinking, Spring Break Destination, The Price of Privelige, Healthy Living News
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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