Steven Dankos and Thomas Erdman, both football stars at Howard County’s River Hill High in Maryland, were best friends. Both 17, Dankos started every game at offensive right guard, and team captain Erdman was left guard. After losing an important playoff game Friday—ending the team’s 40-game winning streak—Dankos and Erdman went out partying Saturday night.
According to the Washington Post,...
Parents can play a significant role in a youth’s likeliness of tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use. The first step in being a positive influence is to be aware of what their youth is doing on a daily basis, who they are hanging out with and where they are spending most of their time.
A report from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), Parent Awareness of Youth Use of Cigarettes, Alcohol and...
In the war on drugs and the subsequent war on underage drinking, educators, parents and policymakers are still trying to understand why alcohol continues to be a problem for minors. In order to reverse current trends, a deeper understanding of how young people drink, where they obtain their alcohol and where they drink the alcohol is important.
In a National Survey on Drug Use & Health report: Underage Alcohol...
As parents of young children, you might think that any discussion about drugs and alcohol is a long way off. Think again. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), more than 50 percent of young people have used an illegal drug by the time they leave high school. The average age when a child first uses alcohol is 11. For marijuana, the average age is 12.
For many children, curiosity about alcohol and...
