All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• Archives: 2014 & Earlier

  Be Grateful There’s a Choice To Make

    BY ROBIN THOMPSON     Since women began to really stand up for their rights in the ’60s, abortion has been...

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  Child Health USA 2000

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) This report shows both good and bad trends in the health status and service...

• Research

  Another Reason Not to Smoke

  Jeffrey Johnson, Ph.D., Patricia Cohen, Ph.D., Daniel Pine, M.D., and colleagues   Journal of the American Medical Association   November 8, 2000,...

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  Teen Love as a Four Letter Word

  Special section of Child Maltreatment, November 2000, Vol. 5, No. 4 Guest editors: Candice Feiring and Wyndol Furman Available for $25 from...

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  Wake Up and Read This

  Board on Children, Youth and Families, National Research Council   Mary G. Graham, Editor   National Academy Press, 2000   Available free...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Sex Ad Campaign Pregnant With Criticism

  Catcalls, raspberries, howls of protest and various random drubbings have greeted a provocative new teen sex advertising campaign designed to do what...

• Research

  Teen Pregnancy Drops, But Why?

  Pregnancy rates among teenagers are at the lowest they’ve been since the government began recording such data in 1976, according to a...

• Employment: Archives 2014 & Earlier

  GARY MALLON

  “Let me tell you something, honey. You’re a big queen yourself and you need to come out of the closet.” A fine...

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  Making the Case: Linking Youth Development and Positive Psychology

  Now and then you have the unsettling experience of hearing your thoughts come out of someone else’s mouth. This is the experience...

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  Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities

  This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...

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  Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth

  Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  Two-Fisted Double Standards

  It is the season when grownups wax hysterical and hypocritical on “teenage drinking.” After years of work in school drug/alcohol programs and...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth

  In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...

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  Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens

  This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....

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  Drug Court Results: Positive But Spotty

  Now that nearly 3,000 youths have gone to juvenile drug courts and the U.S. Justice Department has spent more than $16 million...

• News

  Anti-Huffing Programs Work, Then Get Cut

  By Amy Bracken It’s the third most popular drug in middle school and it can kill on first use. Yet parents and...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Supreme Court Strips FDA Youth Tobacco Regs

  In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....

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  State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use

  In 1997 the National Cancer Policy Board, a joint program of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (which is...

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  Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sex

  National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) Teens who drink are seven times more likely to have sexual...

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  Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol Drug Strategies

  This report on the impact of alcohol abuse examines drinking from several perspectives, including public health, criminal justice, the workplace, treatment and...