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Neighborhood norms and substance use among teens

Teens and Drugs

Statistics estimate 22.5 million Americans over age 12 use illegal drugs. The rates climb higher for teenagers. One in ten tens, ages 12 to 17 use drugs, and ...

Drugs and Desire: Ingrid Walker at TEDxTacoma

Ingrid Walker is Associate Professor of Arts, Media, and Culture at the University of Washington, Tacoma. Her research and teaching focus on the politics of ...

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime | Nadine Burke Harris

Childhood trauma isn't something you just get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect and ...

Substance Abuse Services Descriptions | Mass.gov

Prevention Services Prevention Services can include programs that target all residents in the community, programs that focus on particular groups of individuals who are at high-risk in a community, and coalitions that work with multiple systems in a community.

Prior Research | SDRG

Arkansas Prevention Needs Assessment Studies This collaborative project with the state of Arkansas implemented a statewide system for assessing levels of drug use risk and protective factors and incidence and prevalence using validated survey and archival indicators.

Mental Disorders | SAMHSA - Substance Abuse and Mental ...

The following are descriptions of the most common categories of mental illness in the United States. Anxiety Disorders. Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive fear or anxiety that is difficult to control and negatively and substantially impacts daily functioning.

Adolescence - Wikipedia

Adolescence (from Latin adolescere, meaning 'to grow up') is a transitional stage of physical and psychological development that generally occurs during the period from puberty to legal adulthood (age of majority). Adolescence is usually associated with the teenage years, but its physical, psychological or cultural expressions may begin earlier and end later.

Kavanaugh Furor Kindles Debate on Catholic High-School Culture

Kavanaugh Furor Kindles Debate on Catholic High-School Culture

- National Catholic Register

“We have spent the last weeks listening with grave concern to reports of Prep yearbooks that reflect the worst of adolescent instincts and excess,” he wrote in an Oct. 3 column for America, the Jesuit news outlet. “Although some items have been...

The Key to Happiness Might Be as Simple as a Library or a Park

The Key to Happiness Might Be as Simple as a Library or a Park

- New York Times

In the neighborhood with fewer fatalities, people checked on one another and knew where to go for help; in the other, social isolation was the norm, with residents more often left to fend for themselves, even to perish in sweltering housing units...

Russia Is Exploiting American White Supremacy Over and Over Again

Russia Is Exploiting American White Supremacy Over and Over Again

- Daily Beast

The backlash enjoyed vocal support from the president of the United States, whose repeated outrage over the protests led the largely white ownership of the NFL's teams to institute a policy of fining players for taking an on-field knee, one that...

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