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All posts tagged "Mental Health"
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Unintended Pregnancy Among U.S. Adolescents: Accounting for Sexual Activity
Lawrence B. Finer of the Guttmacher Institute stresses the need for teen pregnancy prevention programs, based on his finding that sexually...
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Drug Abuse and Obesity Share Brain Mechanism
A study by the Scripps Research Institute has confirmed the notion that the brain’s reward system and dopamine are tied to both...
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News
Teen Birth Rate Drops
Births to U.S. teenagers dropped two percent in 2008, reversing two years of teen birth increases that had interrupted a 14-year decline,...
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Boy Scout Confidential
Related on the Web Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution Q&A With Patrick Boyle, Author of ‘Scout’s Honor’...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Proponents New Life
The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...
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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health Report: Substance Use among Black Adults
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) This new national survey shows that alcohol use and abuse by African-American adults...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Just Say Maybe to Abstinence ED
Like the “just say no” anti-drug advertisements that first lady Nancy Reagan made famous a generation ago, abstinence-only sex education programs...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Asperger’s Difference
Jamey Wolff, Jane Nofer Center for Spectrum Services 31 minutes. $49.95 for DVD and study guide. Three articulate young people who...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The Secret of Willow Ridge: Gabe’s Dad Finds Recovery
Helen H. Moore, illustrated by John C. Blackford Central Recovery Press 121 pages. $12.95 paperback. One Saturday morning, 10-year-old Gabe’s shaky,...
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News
Boy Scout Confidential
Web Extras Book: Scout’s Honor: Sexual Abuse in America’s Most Trusted Institution A look inside a Confidential File Data on molesters in...
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Funding: Archives 2014 & Earlier
Health Law Gives Abstinence-only Programs New Life
The health care reform law that President Barack Obama signed into law March 23 to help Americans get access to health insurance...
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News
States May Be Able to Shield Juveniles from Registries
States may be able to shield most juvenile sex offenders from inclusion on a public registry and still achieve compliance with the...
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News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier
First Lady Begins Anti-Obesity Campaign
First lady Michelle Obama kicked off her child obesity awareness tour with a schedule of appearances and speeches active enough to...
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► Newsmakers
Newsmakers for March 2010
Nonprofits Last year around this time, two drug abuse prevention groups were heralding their looming merger as a perfect union. The National...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
We Deserve Better Sex Ed
By Meklit Gebre-Mariam, 16L.A. YOUTH, LOS ANGELES I took health class two years ago in the summer and I’m not sure...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
The “Talk”: Are Schools Doing It Right?
By Anonymous, 17 NEW YOUTH CONNECTIONS, NEW YORK Have your parents ever tried to give you “the talk”? My dad tried...
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Efficacy of a Theory-Based Abstinence-Only Intervention Over 24 Months: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Young Adolescents
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine This new federally funded study released last month provides the first clear evidence that abstinence-only...
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The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Children and Families
National Council of La Raza & Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina (UNC) This report examines the...
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Kids Count Data Center
Annie E. Casey Foundation This state-by-state database tracking the health and well-being of U.S. children and their families has been updated...
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Archives: 2014 & Earlier
Condom Nation: The U.S. Government’s Sex Education Campaign from World War I to the Internet
Alexandra M. LordThe Johns Hopkins University Press224 pages. $40. This fascinating history of the past hundred years of sex education in...
