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Teen Drug Use

Should Parents Tell Kids About Their Own Past, Umm, Indiscretions?

The Huffington Post | Shelley Emling | Posted 02.22.2013 | Fifty

Alright, so maybe you smoked a bit of weed in high school or college. Perhaps you even dabbled with something stronger. You want to tell your kids abo...

Teen Marijuana Use: How Concerned Should We Be?

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.12.2013 | Parents
Vivian Diller, Ph.D.

Is there a familiar aroma emanating from your kid's room? Do you shake your head and ignore it thinking, "Hey, I got high when I was a teen and I turned out OK, right?" Well, think again.

Teen Smoking Rates Hit Record Low

Reuters | Posted 04.12.2013 | Teen

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Cigarette smoking among American teenagers dropped to a record low in 2012, a decline that may have been partly driven by a sharp...

More Students Using Steroids, Protein Powder To Bulk Up

St. Paul Pioneer Press | Christopher Snowbeck | Posted 01.19.2013 | Home

A new study finds that more teenagers are using steroids and protein powders to bulk up. Plus, there's a surprisingly high rate of muscle-enhancing b...

My Son, Prescription Drug Abuse, And A Broken Legal System

Katie Allison Granju | Posted 11.03.2012 | Parents
Katie Allison Granju

Until we stop acting as if it isn't happening, or telling ourselves that it could never happen in our own families, the band will continue to play on.

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

Posted 08.23.2012 | Home

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...

Do Medical Marijuana Laws Turn Teens Into Potheads?

The Huffington Post | Katherine Bindley | Posted 04.12.2013 | Science

Marijuana use among teens has been on the rise for some time--it's become more popular than smoking cigarettes in recent years--but a provocative new ...

More U.S. Teens Smoke Marijuana Than Cigarettes

Posted 06.08.2012 | Teen

More U.S. teens are now smoking marijuana than cigarettes, according to a new government survey. Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

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

Susie Spain | Posted 07.10.2012 | Impact
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.

Rise in Teen Marijuana Use Demonstrates Continued Failure of War on Drugs

Jag Davies | Posted 07.02.2012 | Crime
Jag Davies

The continued decline in teen cigarette smoking is great news -- not just because it's the most deadly drug but also because it reveals that legal regulation and honest education are more effective than prohibition and criminalization.

New Report Reveals Rise In Teen Marijuana Use

AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 07.02.2012 | Parents

WASHINGTON -- More teens are smoking dope, with nearly 1 in 10 lighting up at least 20 or more times a month, according to a new survey of young peopl...

I Didn't Know I Had To Warn Them About Helium, And Other Terrors of Parenting

Lisa Belkin | Posted 04.30.2012 | Parents
Lisa Belkin

Sometimes parenting feels like a race to discover what you should be afraid of before it shows up and grabs your child. It feels as if there is always something new, but really it is all part of the same thing -- that your teen will do something stupid, and you will not have warned them. At all. Or enough.

Arguing With Mom Protects Teens From Peer Pressure

m.theatlantic.com | Posted 12.22.2011 | Fifty

Adolescents who are comfortable expressing their opinions at home can more easily resist negative influences to use drugs or alcohol....

Youth Drug Use: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

R. Gil Kerlikowske | Posted 02.20.2012 | Healthy Living
R. Gil Kerlikowske

Last week, I joined officials from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Department of Health and Human Services to announce the results of the largest annual survey on youth drug use in America.

Teens Aren't Drinking As Much, Guess What They're Doing Instead

AP | By TIM MARTIN | Posted 02.14.2012 | Parents

LANSING, Mich. -- More teens are turning to pot and see it as less of a risk at the same time alcohol use among the same age group has dipped to histo...

Mom Produces Film On The Scary Truth Of Teen Drug Abuse

lagunaniguel.patch.com | Posted 02.12.2012 | Parents

Like two other Laguna Niguel mothers concerned about the local prescription drug epidemic, Natalie Costa is on a mission. A resident since 1986, sh...

Teen Drug And Alcohol Use Lowest Among Blacks, Asians

Posted 01.08.2012 | Home

Black and Asian adolescents are much less likely to turn to drugs or alcohol than teens of other races, according to a new study. The survey of ado...

Dr. Nora Volkow: New Brain Research Helps Explain Drug Addiction

Rehema Trimiew | Posted 12.31.2011 | Healthy Living

Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied the neural pathways of addiction and believes that we've got to protec...

12 Biggest Fake Local News Stories

TruTV.com | David Moye | Posted 12.26.2011 | Weird News

Some folks like to say the media is biased. Yep, it is -- towards anything that sensationalizes the news. Every good local news journalist knows th...

Report: Teen Drug Use Now An 'Epidemic'

TIME | Posted 08.29.2011 | Healthy Living

In a new report on drug, alcohol and tobacco use among teens in the U.S., the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia Univ...

Teen Girl Passes Out At Party, Winds Up Murdered, Dismembered

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.28.2011 | Denver

Jacquelyn Perea, 29, pleaded guilty Monday to a felony count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misdemeanor marijuana-possession charge...

Teens Say 5 Or More Drinks A Day No Big Deal

AP | JENNIFER C. KERR | Posted 06.06.2011 | Home

WASHINGTON -- Downing five or more alcoholic drinks nearly every day isn't seen as a big problem for many of the nation's teens, says a new report. W...

Teen Marijuana Use Up, Alcohol Use Down

AP | Posted 12.16.2011 | Parents

WASHINGTON -- America's teens are using more marijuana and less alcohol, according to an annual government study of eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders ac...

Study: Many Teens Believe They'll Die Young

msn.com | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

A surprising number of teenagers -- nearly 15 percent -- think they're going to die young, leading many to drug use, suicide attempts and other unsafe...