Tag: teen drug abuse
Addiction Has Teeth
While wisdom teeth are a leftover oddity from our days as a stick-gathering, reed-chewing people who needed back-ups for their teeth, today, they continue...
Wendy Williams Puts a Spotlight on Drug Addiction
Wendy Williams, popular American icon and hostess of the Wendy Williams Show on POP, called together a town hall meeting on Wednesday, Nov. 14...
New pediatric primary care model for teens with addiction shows promise
A new pediatric primary care model designed to help teens who are struggling with a substance use disorder is showing promise.
The U.S. health care...
Evidence-based curriculum curbs drug use among teens and their peers
A national curriculum designed to educate children aged 10 to 14 has shown to curb drug use for not only participants of the program...
The impact of age in the relationship between alcohol use and...
Researchers analyzed the role of age-related changes in the relationship between violent behavior and alcohol use in the December issue of the journal Addictive...
The most effective interventions to prevent adolescent drug abuse
A recent study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health looked at different substance abuse interventions for teenagers and determined which ones were the...
The impact of addiction on siblings
Ian Jones of Lake Forest, Calif., died from a drug overdose in his sister April’s arms in October 2014. He was 26 years old.
“I...
‘The most fortunate of the unfortunate’ (Aimee Dunkle interview Part 4...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKa4_J6Wyfc&feature=youtu.be
In the final installment of our four-part interview with Aimee Dunkle, she addressed how she managed to move on with her life after losing...
‘The guilt will never go away’ (Aimee Dunkle Interview Part 3...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwycdI80HDc&feature=youtu.be
In part three of our four-part interview with Aimee Dunkle, she talked about the impact of her son Ben's opioid addiction on her family,...
Parenting an addict: How to empower rather than enable
Making the right parenting choices can be tricky. The thin line between empowering a child’s success and enabling them with an easy way out...
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