Youth Today
All posts tagged "Substance Abuse"
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Grants
Reducing Youth Obesity, Opioid Abuse Care/Prevention, and Youth Mental Health Improvement Program Grants
Subject: Community Development, Health, Child/Youth Welfare, Substance Abuse, Drugs, Childhood Obesity | Deadline: July 31, 2017
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68.8KMagazinesBokeh Focus: Curated Instagram collection
Curated Instagram galleries and videos. Explore @bokeh_focus Instagram photos from youth sharing their unique perspectives on the world around them. Curated by...
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17.2KMagazinesSubstance use: New focus, new solutions
Finding ways to make a difference in the lives of users and their families. Explore our digital magazine with news stories, personal...
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1.8KNewsJuvenile Drug Courts Agree More Family Involvement Needed; Some Not Sure How to Do It: Report
Juvenile drug treatment courts must do more to bring families into the treatment process if they want to help young offenders overcome...
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2.0KNewsLegislation with Mental Health Reforms, Opioid Prevention Funding Heads to Senate
A major medical innovation bill that could help children and families with mental health reforms and funding to fight opioid addiction is...
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1.5KVideosNaloxone in Georgia
Naloxone, a medicine used to stop the effects of an opioid overdose, can be easily applied via a squirt through the nose...
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2.6KOpinionThe Importance of Confidentiality for Effective SBIRT Interventions for Teens
For the SBIRT model to work, an open and honest conversation must occur between a young person and practitioner. But for a...
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1.9KNewsYouth Need Substance Abuse Help in Communities, Experts Say
Adolescents with substance abuse problems too often cannot access treatment unless they land in the juvenile justice system, experts say. Relying on...
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1.8KOpinionSubstance 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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1.9KOpinionSelfishly 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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1.7KOpinionWho 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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1.4KOpinionKeep 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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13.9KOpinionThe 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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2.2KOpinionWe 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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2.8KOpinionAnxiety, 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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2.9KNewsAn 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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2.7KOpinionReframing 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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1.7KNewsObama 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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3.4KOpinionAddiction 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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4.6KNewsNolan’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...
