Project Amp: Amplifying Our Futures offers a brief mentorship intervention for teens at risk of substance use, to be delivered in health...
As a social worker, I quickly learned that teens don’t like being told what to do. Who does? Teachers, counselors, pediatricians and...
"How to Talk to Kids about Drugs — and How Not to" From their own experiences, young adults in recovery share what...
In the behavioral health field, it is clear that the most high-stakes developmental period is adolescence, when mental illness and substance use...
I’ve been abusing alcohol since I was a teen. I faced a lot of trauma as a young kid from a poor...
"When I got high for the first time, I felt like: 'Wow, this is what I've been looking for, like I can...
“I was only 11 years old, but my age didn’t stop me from falling into the same trap my father did.” A...
Three young men in recovery reflect on their youth and how their addictions were mishandled by their mentors, teachers and coaches. They...
Substance misuse can have long-term adverse effects on physical and mental health, academic and career attainment, relationships, and being part of a...
Studies show that 90 percent of people with substance use disorders began using during their teen years when the brain is still...
The latest treasure trove of data for public health researchers and policymakers who study substance use and mental health arrived this week,...
NEWNAN, Ga. — It was the fake $100 bill that finally landed Corey Roberts in prison. He’d already had one close call,...
For the past five years, Young People in Recovery has worked within the youth and young adult recovery advocacy space to normalize...
Justin Luke Riley's candid approach to recovery from opioid and other addictions: "I should have a mission every day to make sure...
With a school filled with druggies and a neighborhood filled with them, too, I was out of luck. Doing drugs was how...
Spoken word artist Joseph Green says spoken word poetry is a youth development tool.
"The last time I saw you alive, I wish I would have talked ugly to you." Through spoken word, recovering addict Joseph...
Six stories of losing friends to overdose are woven into one tale of drugs and loss.
An unlikely group gathered last spring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the opening of a new addiction-treatment center just for teens. Probation...
We're proud to partner with Upworthy to share this video, produced last summer when the Alcoholic Anonymous convention was in Atlanta. If...