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The Mild Bunch: Teens don't like to take risks
Teenagers in 2024 are less likely to use drugs, alcohol or nicotine and many are postponing driving, work and sex.
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 22, 20241 min read
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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...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 27, 20243 min read
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'What a drag it is turning 15'
Pill popping was mocked by the Rolling Stones in 1966.
Joanne Jacobs
Jun 25, 20231 min read
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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
Jun 25, 20232 min read
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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
Jan 15, 20232 min read
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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 21, 20221 min read
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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
Dec 3, 20171 min read
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‘Sober High’ schools serve young addictsÂ
Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs? asks John D. Tulenko in the Hechinger Report. Independence Academy in Brockton, Mass....
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 18, 20171 min read
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