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Monitoring the Future 2018: Vaping Increase for Teens

In 1975, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded the first large-scale, nationwide survey of nicotine, alcohol, and drug use among high school students, college students, and young adults in the U.S. Conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, the Monitoring the Future Survey began with high school seniors and added eight and tenth graders in 1991. Over fifty-thousand students and

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Overdose Awareness Day
Parents

August 31st: International Overdose Awareness Day

Drug Overdose: A Worldwide Problem, Prevalent in the United States Most people can define the word overdose without consulting a dictionary— it’s what happens when someone takes too much of an illegal drug or a prescription medication. It’s a dreaded word for someone with a child who’s struggling with substance misuse. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a coroner or medical examiner is required to define a

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Parents

Ten Signs a Teen is Abusing Substances

Teenagers experiment. Teenagers push boundaries and take risks they shouldn’t. They hang around with the people their parents warn them against. Sometimes only because of the warning. And teenagers get in cars they shouldn’t get in with those same people they shouldn’t have been hanging around in the first place. Adults know all these things because – news flash – every adult on the planet was a teenager once. One

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Talk to Your Teen: Health Consequences of Alcohol Abuse

As the parent of a teenager, you’ve got a lot on your mind. You want the best for your kids, so you pay monitor their grades, their friends, their extracurricular activities, and their social life – especially once they hit high school. Unless you live under a rock, you’re concerned about the opioid epidemic sweeping the nation. You read articles about big pharmaceutical companies flooding rural communities with millions of

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My Teenager Has an Addiction Problem: How Do I Find a Quality Treatment Program?

The Consequences of Untreated Addiction It’s not easy to admit your teenager has an addiction problem. It’s a realization that can take parents years to come to terms with. The evidence may have been right in front of you, plain to see, from the first time your child stayed out past curfew. Or the time they came home with glassy eyes or and alcohol on their breath. You may have

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Parent Quiz: Am I Enabling My Teen’s Addiction?

Parents always want what’s best for their kids. It starts the moment they’re born, if not before. Most parents see their child for the first time and think something along lines of “Well, I know what I’m doing for the next eighteen years.” Parents of grown children chuckle at this sentiment: they know the parenting never stops. Whether their kids are twenty-two or forty-two, their first impulse is to help

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My LGBTQ Teen Has an Addiction Problem: Does She Need a Custom Program?

Adolescence is a time of radical transformation. This transitional period between youth and adulthood is characterized significant change in virtually every area of life. Teens develop physically, emotionally, intellectually, and socially. They form their own identities – separate and distinct from their parents – and engage in an evolving, instinctive process of trial and error to learn about themselves and find their place in the world. Through a series of

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I’m a Recovering Addict: Did I Doom My Teen to Become an Addict?

Good question. The fact you’re asking it probably means you’re on the right track. Addicts consumed by their substance abuse are often so deep in their own issues they don’t have the wherewithal to formulate questions – or muster the energy to care – about the effects of their addiction on others. Understanding the impact of your behavior on your kids is a big step, and sometimes it can be

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Camarillo: Drugs, Drinking, and Your Teenager

Since January, the Ventura County Sherriff’s Department has made dozens of drug-related arrests and confiscated marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, and controlled prescription drugs worth over 8.4 million dollars – all in the Camarillo area. That’s not including the massive operation conducted this summer in nearby Los Padres National Forest in coordination with the California Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies, a sting which included 14 raids on illegal marijuana

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Seven Signs of Teen Substance Abuse

Adolescence is not easy. Teenagers face a double-whammy: they’re going through in internal physiological revolution while simultaneously learning the rules of society and coming to grips with the inevitable transition to adulthood. As parents, a great deal of this transformation can make your growing kid act distant, reactive, and for lack of a better word, just plain weird. The source of this new and unusual behavior is predominantly neurochemical. Intense

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