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All posts tagged "Substance Abuse"
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssaySubstance Use Among Teens Is Never Benign
Adolescence is a time of growth and potential but also a time of risk-taking and experimentation with drugs and alcohol, which can...
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1.6KGuest Opinion EssaySelfishly Selfless: Social Anxiety, Addiction and the Benefits of Service
People in recovery vividly recall their first experiences with drugs and alcohol as teenagers.
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayWho Will I Be As an Adult?
In all those years I was bounced around, I didn’t know where I belonged or what would happen when I aged out...
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1.1KGuest Opinion EssayKeep Alcohol in Focus to Reduce Youth Substance Use
April is Alcohol Awareness Month. Addressing misperceptions is important, because otherwise we run the risk of further perpetuating beliefs among young people...
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13.1KGuest Opinion EssayThe Importance of Youth Leaders in Substance Abuse Prevention
For many young people today, the word prevention is complicated. Some might think that prevention doesn’t affect them, and some might not...
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1.9KGuest Opinion EssayWe Need to Talk with Youth About Substance Use and SBIRT Is the Way to Do It
We know that almost everyone who struggles with addiction began using substances before the age of 18. So, we need to talk...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayAnxiety, Substance Abuse and the Cycle of Diminishing Returns
One of the main reasons I ended up addicted to drugs and alcohol was anxiety. Now make no mistake, I suffer from...
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2.4KNewsAn Old Message from the Drug War: Just Say No to Marijuana
Just like the abstinence-only approach to teen sex, the abstinence-only approach to marijuana sees itself as offering a realistic path to young...
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssayReframing the Opioid Epidemic: Lawmakers Must Put Children First
Opioid use in the U.S. is a crisis. For 30 percent of kids removed from their parents’ care, substance use in the...
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1.4KNewsObama Affirms at Drug Summit That Addiction Is Disease, Not Moral Failure
Justin Riley, president of Young People in Recovery, got to sit next to President Obama at the National Rx Drug Abuse and...
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3.0KGuest Opinion EssayAddiction Doesn’t Discriminate, So Why Should We?
As prescription pain medication abuse grows in prevalence among youth, we can expect the rates of accidental overdose deaths among 12- to...
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4.1KNewsNolan’s Story
"I just couldn't stop," said Nolan Eley, 25, who lived through a revolving door of getting help, relapsing and alienating loved ones...
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3.3KGuest Opinion EssayThe American Dream Delayed by Addiction
A young writer reflects on how his father’s addiction impacted his family, his growing up and his own substance use. “After everything,...
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1.8KGuest Opinion EssaySubstance Abuse Prevention Must Move Beyond Health Care Settings
To turn the tide on opiate addiction and right the course of many young lives before intensive and costly treatment is needed,...
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1.3KVideosNaloxone and the Cop
"I immediately took my Narcan out, squirted a milligram of Narcan into her nose and within about 20 seconds [she] took this...
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2.4KFrom the BureausTraumatized, Locked Up, LA Girls Starting to Get More Help
Moriah Barrett, then 14, woke up to burns on her body one night along with physical evidence that she had been raped....
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Guest Opinion Essay
Because I’m Free
A young writer’s story indicates many places where youth workers and systems could have intervened — healing child sexual abuse, treating drug...
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1.2KGuest Opinion Essay
Don’t Overlook These Areas When Picking a Treatment Center for Children
Hitting eight years sober means I’ve officially been in recovery longer than I was in active addiction. That’s something incredibly special to...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayUnmasking the Youth Addiction Crisis
The shift puts a glaring light on the way Americans fight for white lives. One select group is differentiated from the rest...
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1.5KGuest Opinion EssayAlcohol and College Students: A Study in Prevention
College students are an interesting and important group of drinkers to study. As a group, 18- to 24-year olds are among the...
