All posts tagged "Mental Health"

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  Smoking and Girls: A Deadly Mix

  When we think of the dangers facing children, most adults think of violence, illegal drugs, drunk driving, teen pregnancy and AIDS. We...

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  Legacy First Look Report 6: Youth Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke

  This report, from the tobacco education foundation created by the national Master Settlement Agreement with the major tobacco companies, says more than...

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  Critical Choices: Making Drug Policy at the State Level Drug Strategies

  This report outlines the needs and roles that state governments must play in reducing the demand for drugs through treatment and prevention...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Births Hit a New Low

  The national teen birth rate hit a record low in 1999, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)....

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Feds Name Model Anti-Drug Programs

  The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) more than doubled its list of model substance abuse prevention programs last month...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile Peep Show

  Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Juvenile Peep Show

  Welcome to the voice mail system of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Perversion Prevention. Press x1 for grantmaking guidelines for programs...

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  With One Voice: America’s Adults and Teens Sound Off About Teen Pregnancy, and Halfway There: A Prescription for Continued Progress in Preventing Teen Pregnancy

  By Amy Bracken The vast majority of U.S. adults and teens believe that teens should not be sexually active but those who...

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  2001 KIDS COUNT Data Book: State Profiles of Child Well-Being

  By Amy Bracken In some regards, teens are doing better in almost all of the 50 states and the District of Columbia....

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  Research Watch AIDS and Young Women

  AIDS is a growing threat to women, including teenage girls. A new report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

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  A DAREing Rescue

  They had sparred long distance through newspapers and on TV, but they met for the first time over coffee and bagels in...

• Anti-Drug Programs that Work?

  Project Northland                  Developed by University of Minnesota, this program targets sixth- through eighth-graders and seeks to delay the age at which teens...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  STDs Discriminate

  New findings dramatically demonstrate how the spread of sexually transmitted diseases differs by age, gender, race and geography. The U.S. Centers for...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Sex Charges Prompt Youth Group Changes

  An Orthodox Judaism panel investigating teenage sex abuse allegations against a 50-year-old New Jersey rabbi and veteran youth worker blamed “profound errors...

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  The Sexual Victimization of College Women National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice

  This report gives the results of the National College Women Sexual Victimization Survey, conducted by the National Institute of Justice in the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?

  “We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Not-So-High Times For Teen Drug Use?

  “We are greatly encouraged by the results of the MTF Survey,” said U.S. Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey in a statement on the...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Haze Over Youth Anti-Tobacco Lessons

  A study casting doubt on the effectiveness of anti-tobacco programs for youth has done something few would have thought possible: put anti-tobacco...

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  Drinking Now, Problems Later Natural Course of Alcohol Use Disorders from Adolescence to Young Adulthood

  Paul Rohde, Peter Lewinsohn, Christopher Kahler, John Seeley and Richard Brown Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry January 2001,...

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  Girls and Sports Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Sports Medicine and Fitness Pediatrics

  September 2000, Vol. 106, pp. 610-613 Summary version at www.aap.org/advocacy/archives/septath.htm  With all the concern about couch potatoes, let’s start by emphasizing that...