The social contagion effect of marijuana use among adolescents
Social Influence: Crash Course Psychology #38
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Cannabis and the Young Brain, Tauheed Zaman, MD
What is the effect of cannabis - "weed" - on the developing adolescent brain? What does the current evidence show about marijuana use/abuse? Parents, don't ...
Teen Depression: The Good News for Adolescents
Dr. Jan Hittelman of http://BoulderPscyhologicalServices.com leads a panel on teen depression discussing warning signs and community resources.
The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 ...
The prevalence of obesity has increased substantially over the past 30 years. We performed a quantitative analysis of the nature and extent of the person-to-person spread of obesity as a possible factor contributing to the obesity epidemic. We evaluated a densely interconnected social network of ...
James Fowler - James H. Fowler
James Fowler. James Fowler. earned a PhD from Harvard in 2003 and is currently a Professor at the University of California, San Diego.His work lies at the intersection of the natural and social sciences, with a focus on social networks, behavior, evolution, politics, genetics, and big data.
Family-Based Interventions for the Prevention of Substance ...
A similar SEM model was tested for school failure, delinquency, and teen pregnancy as well as alcohol and drug use with similar results [5, 67] finding that low parental supervision had a greater influence on adolescent girls’ alcohol and drug use than on boys.
Charles Konia, M.D. - Board Certified Psychiatrist and ...
The exacerbation of America’s immigration problem is not only about immigration but, more importantly, about the American left’s undisguised hatred of Donald Trump and his authoritative, pro-American policies.
Social media can be bad for youth mental health, but there are ways it can help
- The Conversation AUYoung people spend a lot of time on social media. They're also more susceptible to peer pressure, low self-esteem and mental ill-health. A number of studies have found associations between increased social media use and depression, anxiety, sleep...
Just How Bad Is Kids' Smartphone Addiction?
- Daily BeastAnd while she said her research doesn't touch on addiction so much as the mental health of teens based on smartphone use, she said there's undeniable proof that screen time has a negative effect on developing minds, based on research that was published...
Police Chief: Opioid Crisis a Health Issue
- Highlands CurrentHe describes the current epidemic as “a social contagion.” A local drug user may host an out-of-town drug dealer, then sells drugs to a friend. “Then it's not just one person shop lifting or robbing to get drugs,” he said. “Now it's two, then three...