All posts tagged "Mental Health"

• ► Reports

  The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and Their Families in America’s Largest Cities

  Annie E. Casey Foundation Babies born in the nation’s 50 largest cities are likely to start life at a significant disadvantage compared...

• Research

  Adolescents Take Risks With AIDS Complacency Feeds Rampant Sexual Risk Taking

  Todd ZwillichPediatric News October 1999 Teenage gay and bisexual boys are risking their lives by ignoring safe sex, according to interviews conducted...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  Teen Drug Abuse Decline Pauses

  With some exceptions, overall drug abuse among American adolescents held steady during 1999, according to “Monitoring the Future,” the ongoing study by...

• Guest Opinion Essay

  ‘Tobacco-Free’ Haze

  In a dozen years of working with kids, I saw the same scenes a hundred times: parents, family friends, relatives and teenagers...

• Research

  The Impact of Marijuana

  Policy Statement of the American Academy of PediatricsReprinted in Pediatrics, October 1999 and AAP News, October 1999Available free at www.aap.org/policy/re9915.html or for $5...

• News

  McCaffrey’s Anti-Drug Campaign Caught in Crossfire

  Described as the largest media buy in history for a public health issue, national drug czar Barry McCaffrey’s $185-million-a-year anti-drug campaign is...

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  Teenage Sex Rate Does Not Increase With Condom Use

  By Jennifer Gauck A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health contends that distributing condoms in school does not increase rates...

• News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

  States Crack Down On Teen Smokers

  Several states have cracked down on teen tobacco use by shifting the consequences of smoking to youth directly – imposing fines and...