In order to integrate policies for education and prevention of alcohol and drug abuse by teenagers and young adults, the U.S. government provides funding for surveying teens across the country. The Monitoring the Future project is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
The survey is administered annually. In the most recent survey, over 45,000 students reported from almost 400 schools across the country....
A headache isn’t something necessarily unnatural for a high school student to complain about, especially in times of high stress. If such headaches are being caused by activities in which the student should not be engaged in the first place, it might be time to take a closer look.
German researchers decided to take a closer look at the phenomenon and their findings were reported in a recent Science Daily...
On any given day in the United States, there are small miracles that change the course of a person’s life. A new baby is born. A student aces a test. An athlete breaks a school record. Unfortunately, there are small defeats that change the course of a person’s life, too, like running late for the job interview that could have launched a new career, or a citation for driving while intoxicated.
A critical...
When Martha’s children were in their early teens, Martha had a zero-tolerance policy regarding alcohol. When she saw beer at a party her then-14-year-old daughter was attending, she broke it up and told all the kids to call their parents. When her son was about the same age, she grounded him for a month after learning he had a drinking episode.
But when her children reached their late teens, she loosened the...
A national study on the use of illegal drugs shows that Oregon kids rank 16th in the nation for alcohol abuse. The study finds that about 21 percent of people between 12 and 20 have used alcohol in the past month.
Doctor Peter Delany of the Federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration says four percent of them buy their own alcohol.
He said many parents concentrate on other problems. "People...
