Joanne Jacobs
Portland's fentanyl crisis is killing children
Children are living and dying in Portland's homeless camps, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. Child-welfare agencies are...
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Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 25, 2023
- 1 min
'What a drag it is turning 15'
Pill popping was mocked by the Rolling Stones in 1966.
Joanne Jacobs
- Jun 25, 2023
- 2 min
Awkward? Anxious? There's a pill for every problem, available online
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, writes Frey India, but it's more like Marketing Pills to Girls Month. She was inundated with...
Joanne Jacobs
- Jan 15, 2023
- 2 min
To protect kids, treat parents' addiction, mental illness
The best predictor of children's risk of severe neglect and abuse is not poverty, writes Naomi Schaefer Riley in City Journal. It's drug...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 21, 2022
- 1 min
Schools take on new role: Saving kids from fentanyl overdoses
Training school staff to identify fentanyl overdoses and administer Narcan is saving lives in Bay Area schools, report Scooty Nickerson...
Joanne Jacobs
- Dec 3, 2017
- 1 min
Iceland’s clean teens
Iceland’s teens are much less likely to get drunk, use drugs or smoke since the country focused on the problem in 1998, reports BBC News....
Joanne Jacobs
- Mar 18, 2017
- 1 min
‘Sober High’ schools serve young addicts
Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs? asks John D. Tulenko in the Hechinger Report. Independence Academy in Brockton, Mass....
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