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What a Teen In Recovery Wants You To Know

LISTEN UP – Oct. 29, 2024 - In my sophomore year, I was attending a relatively large alternative high school in Seattle. It was April 2022, and a friend had taken fentanyl and was actively overdosing directly across ... Read More...

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17 Students Treated at Middle School in Studio City Over ‘Possible Overdoses’

VIDEO – SHARING – Oct. 17, 2024 - As she stood outside her school, sixth-grader Ariana Arcos was near tears, and with her lip quivering as she said, “I don’t know what’s going on right now.” Meanwhile, seventh-gra... Read More...

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Teen Smoking Drops to Lowest Level in 25 Years

TEENAGE SAFELAND – Oct. 17, 2024 - There was a 20% drop in the estimated number of middle and high school students who recently used at least one tobacco product, including cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, nicotine... Read More...

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Sober in College: Moving Past Teenage Alcoholism

VERY SMART – Oct. 9, 2024 - My first year of college. Frat party. I was standing against a wall, sipping tap water from a solo cup and talking to a girl standing next to me. We talked back and forth for 20 minutes, y... Read More...

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States Sue TikTok For Harming Youth’s Brains

GET IN LINE – Oct. 8, 2024 - More than a dozen states and the District of Columbia filed lawsuits against TikTok on Tuesday, alleging the popular short-form video app is damaging children’s mental health with a produ... Read More...

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Drug Overdoses Leading Cause of Death in Teens

VIDEO – TEENAGE WASTELAND – Sept. 17, 2024 - The California Overdose Surveillance dashboard says in 2023, the county had 77 opio... Read More...

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‘You can still have fun at a festival while sober’

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT – July 27, 2024 - Young people are increasingly choosing not to drink alcohol, according to the latest statistics. But what about when it comes to festivals, which are usually synonymou... Read More...

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Acne Medication Set Off Rare Chain Reaction That Killed

DRUGS ARE DANGEROUS – July 17, 2024 - Izzy McKinney was a healthy teenager who wrote poetry, played the mandolin and took pride in her flair with an eyeliner pencil. She also had acne. She tried topical med... Read More...

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Watching HBO’s ‘Teen Torture, Inc.

REVOLTING – July 16, 2024 - “Teen Torture, Inc.” is the latest documentary aimed at exposing alleged abuses within the massive “troubled teen” industry, which caters to parents and state agencies desperate to ... Read More...

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Kids Struggling With Screen Addiction

GEN THUMB? – July 11, 2024 - Like many teens his age, KJ became consumed by watching TikTok, YouTube, and sometimes Snapchat videos. He especially enjoys watching videos on barbering. On weekends and school ni... Read More...

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45 States Hammer Zuckerberg Over Child Endangerment

THE LOST GENERATION – June 22, 2024 - As one example of Zuckerberg’s decision-making, executive David Ginsberg told him in 2019 citing concern about “areas of problematic use/addiction and teens,” says court r... Read More...

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How Internet Addiction Affects Your Teen’s Brain

NOT IN A GOOD WAY – June 5, 2024 - A new study has possibly captured that objectively, finding that for teens diagnosed with internet addiction, signaling between brain regions important for controlling attent... Read More...

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Sheriff: Florida Police Officer Gave Teens Drugs & Alcohol – Filmed Them Nude

ONE ROTTEN APPLE? – May 29, 2024 - Markanthony Fernandez, 24, a Bartow Police Department officer, was arrested Tuesday after an investigation began on May 8. The incident happened on the weekend of Feb. ... Read More...

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Reality of Teens and Weed

IT REALLY AIN’T THE SAME – May 11, 2024 - Frequency of use was another risk factor for psychosis, such as weekly or daily use, with those using the drug daily at elevated risk for serious psychiatric problems ... Read More...

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1400 Clinicians on What’s Driving Youth Mental Health Crisis

iPHONES OR TIKTOK – April 10, 2024 - Many clinicians who work with young patients with mental health issues agree they lack enough resources to treat kids and that patients are worse off now than before the pa... Read More...

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Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids

OR IS IT TOO LATE? – March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis that is driven, in large part, by how much of their day is spent online. The numbers are horrifying: r... Read More...

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Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren’t Growing Up

WHY BOTHER? – Feb. 27, 2024 - Shrier’s new book Bad Therapy, an astute and impassioned analysis of the mental-health crisis now afflicting adolescents, may cause a similar emotional meltdown in some corners of Americ... Read More...

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Kids Sniffing This Pantry Staple to Get High

IT’S NOT GLUE – March 19, 2024 - The woman, who goes by the name Lakeview Living on TikTok, ignited the controversy after speaking with a teacher who related the issues that schools in their area are experienc... Read More...

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Kids’ Phone-Based Existence InHuman

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – March 21, 2024 - “Suppose that when your first child turned ten, a visionary billionaire whom you’ve never met chose her to join the first permanent human settlement on Mars … Would you let her g... Read More...

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Lured In: Understanding and Overcoming Gambling Addiction in Youth

IT’S A LONG SHOT – Feb. 26, 2024 - “Sports betting used to be taboo, now it’s openly promoted and easily accessible through phones,” says Dr. Louise Stanger, an interventionist and gambling addiction expert. “... Read More...

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Treatment For Teens Inacce$$ible As Opioid Deaths Rise

VIDEO – WHY? – Feb. 9, 2023 - “People are desperate,” said Pattie Vargas, a California mother who took out a second mortgage to pay for a spot at a facility for her son Joel, who was addicted to meth as a teen and ... Read More...

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Lots of Young People on Lots of Psychiatric Drugs

THEY’RE CUSTOMERS FIRST AND FOREMOST – Feb. 16, 2024 - Growing numbers of children and adolescents are being prescribed multiple psychiatric drugs to take simultaneously. The phenomenon is increasing despite warnings... Read More...

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Kids Overdose! Can Pediatricians Help?

MALPRACTICE? – Feb. 17, 2024 - Pediatricians responded to the survey by saying they don’t have enough patients to justify learning about this type of care, or don’t think it’s a pediatrician’s job. “It’s seen ... Read More...

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Kids Don’t Get Science-Backed Drug Prevention

IS SCIENCE TOO WOKE? – Jan. 11, 2024 - As science teacher Zach Lazar looks out across his classroom at South Eugene High School, he sees more kids struggling than he did before the pandemic. In the past two ye... Read More...

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How to Discipline an In-School Overdose? You Don’t

AUDIO – GET THEM HELP! – Dec. 15, 2023 - Perched above a major highway in central Los Angeles sits an unassuming high school where students are all too familiar with the sound of ambulance sirens. This fall, the pr... Read More...

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Cannabis Use Eschewed By Younger Teens

GAMING INSTEAD? – Nov. 10, 2023 - In 2021, 52 million people aged 12 and older in the US used cannabis, roughly 1 in 5 people in this age group. Those figures have been inching upwards over the last few decade... Read More...

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Some Children So Addicted They Have to Sleep With Vapes Under Pillow

ADDICTIVE ANY WAY YOU TAKE IT – Nov. 1, 2023 - In September, VicHealth and Quit released research revealing e-cigarette retailers are advertising vaping products on social media specifically designed for teenagers to... Read More...

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Officials Link Mental Health Issues to Teens Social Media’s Lure

SELFIE STICKS TOO – Oct. 11, 2023 - Convinced social media platforms are fueling a mental health crisis among the nation’s youth, public officials in New York announced new legislation Wednesday that would res... Read More...

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Lawmakers Searching for Answers. Why is Fentanyl Killing Kids?

LOOK WITHIN SOCIETY – Aug. 30, 2023 - Mississippi enacted a bill in March mandating a media campaign aimed at youth. California lawmakers are also considering requiring the state health department to make an o... Read More...

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School sues Facebook, TikTok, other Social Media Owners for Addictive Products

AUDIO – TECK NECK FOREVER – Aug. 25, 2023 - The social media “addiction” has led to the district to provide more mental health resources to its student body, amid rising rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidal tho... Read More...

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