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All posts tagged "Substance Abuse"
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2.5KYouth VoicesReclaiming My Life after Meth
With a school filled with druggies and a neighborhood filled with them, too, I was out of luck. Doing drugs was how...
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1.2KGuest Opinion EssayVideo: Life is Short
Spoken word artist Joseph Green says spoken word poetry is a youth development tool.
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1.2KVideosVideo: Talk Ugly
"The last time I saw you alive, I wish I would have talked ugly to you." Through spoken word, recovering addict Joseph...
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1.2KNewsFriends
Six stories of losing friends to overdose are woven into one tale of drugs and loss.
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1.5KNewsNew Strategies for Treating Addiction among Teens
An unlikely group gathered last spring in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the opening of a new addiction-treatment center just for teens. Probation...
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1.6KNewsUnspoken Truths: Young People in Recovery
We're proud to partner with Upworthy to share this video, produced last summer when the Alcoholic Anonymous convention was in Atlanta. If...
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1.3KGuest Opinion EssayChildhood Obesity Prevention Serves as Framework to Address Adolescent Substance Use
Adolescence is a developmental period of growth and great potential, but it is also a time of risk-taking and experimentation — including...
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2.3KGuest Opinion EssayTalking to a Doctor About Substance Use
Making sure doctors are trained in prevention and treatment is critical. Assuring that addiction is addressed in routine medical practice will help...
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1.0KNewsThe Recovery Diaries: Jessica
Meet 24-year-old Jessica McDaniel: The woman who couldn't go without a drink before 11 in the morning is now helping other young...
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Reducing Teen Substance Misuse: What Really Works
This new report from Trust for America's Health uses comprehensive national data to rank all 50 states on how how effective they...
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1.9KThe Most Effective Prevention for Teen Substance Use Not Widely Deployed: Report
Though the most effective policies have been identified to fight substance abuse in teens, states don't use them widely enough, public health...
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1.8KEngaging Kids Fights Substance Abuse, Organizations Say
Three years ago, Dejohn Taylor’s life was in turmoil. Substance abuse had sent him spiraling toward self-destruction. He was finding himself in...
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1.2KVideosBrothers & Sisters
Hurt. Frustration. Grief. Anger. Guilt. Three sisters and one brother reflect on their dead siblings' drug addictions.
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2.1KGuest Opinion EssaySupport for LGBTQ Youth Can Reduce Drugs and Alcohol Abuse
The evidence is clear and alarming: Teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBTQ) are more likely to use drugs...
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4.0KNewsFoster Care System Feels Shock Waves from Heroin Addiction
Judges, caseworkers and child welfare administrators say an increase in heroin use nationwide is linked to a surge of kids into the...
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1.4KGuest Opinion EssayThe Test of Time: Finding a Way to Stay Clean for My Daughter
We just got back from feeding Harlow at the hospital, and we were hanging out in the motor home. I was getting...
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1.4KNewsTalking Intervention and Youth
The International Network on Brief Interventions for Alcohol & Other Drugs (INEBRIA) held its 12th conference in Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 23-25.
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4.1KFrom the FieldYouth Impact: High School Students Lead Substance Abuse Prevention Efforts
As part of National Substance Abuse Prevention Month, peer educators and adult supporters at GUIDE in Georgia speak up about the impact...
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1.3KNewsYouth Unite to Face Addiction, Fight Shame
Thousands gathered at the Unite to Face Addiction Rally in Washington, D.C., Sunday, Oct. 4, to fight the stigma of addiction and...
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1.4KNewsYoung People’s Voices Called Critical in Addiction Movement
College recovery groups, recovery high schools and many adolescents and 20-somethings joined the crowd to show their support for ending the silence...
