teenagers

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…

6 days ago

Time to Fight Digital Addiction in Kids

OR IS IT TOO LATE? –   March 30, 2024 - American kids are experiencing an unprecedented mental health crisis…

3 weeks ago

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…

4 weeks ago

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,…

1 month ago

Kids’ Phone-Based Existence InHuman

CHILDHOOD CANCELED – March 21, 2024 - “Suppose that when your first child turned ten, a visionary billionaire whom you’ve…

1 month ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

2 months ago

Kids Overdose! Can Pediatricians Help?

MALPRACTICE? –   Feb. 17, 2024 - Pediatricians responded to the survey by saying they don’t have enough patients to…

2 months ago

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…

3 months ago

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…

4 months ago

Cannabis Use Eschewed By Younger Teens

GAMING INSTEAD? –   Nov. 10, 2023 - In 2021, 52 million people aged 12 and older in the US…

6 months ago

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…

6 months ago

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…

7 months ago

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…

7 months ago

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…

8 months ago

Schools Short 100,000 Mental Health Workers

THE KIDS ARE NOT ALRIGHT – Aug. 31, 2023 - In a moment that seems to plead for creativity, educators…

8 months ago

Schools Face Fentanyl Fiasco As More Teens Overdose

AUDIO – FLUNKING OUT FOREVER – Aug. 30, 2023 - “Fentanyl’s infiltration into schools is certainly something that cannot be…

8 months ago

Ecuador is Hooked on Dangerous Drugs

BORDERLINE – Aug. 24, 2023 - Teenage drug users play games and sports to improve social and behavioural skills. The…

8 months ago

Potent Marijuana Makes Teens Sick

NO LONGER A SACRAMENT –   Aug. 14, 2023 - But despite these dangers, the potency of the products currently…

8 months ago

Teenage Smokers Grow Dispersant Brains

VIDEO – DON’T BECOME YOUR GRANDPARENTS –   Aug. 16, 2023 - A new study suggests that the brains of…

8 months ago

I lived with an Eating Disorder: Netflix nails it with Heartstopper

TV DONE RIGHT – Aug. 17, 2023 - The desire to avoid eating informed almost every decision I made. I…

8 months ago

Lil Tay, Teen Influencer, Has Died? NO SHE DIDN’T!!!

MYSTERIOUS DEATH – Aug. 9, 2023 - In a phone interview with The Daily Beast alongside her mother, Angela Tian,…

9 months ago

ER Visits for Teen Girls Booming

NOT AN EASY TIME – July 12, 2023 - A second study in JAMA Network Open also showed that mental…

10 months ago

Spike in Teen Depression Aligns with Rise of Social Media

IT’S REALLY APPENING – June 21, 2023 - “These apps are designed to support dependency, and a young person’s natural…

10 months ago

Graduating from High School for Teens in Recovery

AUTHENTIC HIGHER EDUCATION –   June 16, 2023 - This was a moment they, at one point, believed would never…

10 months ago

Boston Children’s Hospital Establishes Division of Addiction Medicine to Study SUD in Children & Adolescents

ABOUT TIME! – May 25, 2023 - Boston Children’s Hospital has launched the first Division of Addiction Medicine at a…

11 months ago

Teenagers Labeled with Disease in Addiction Treatment

IT’S NOT A DISEASE? – May 18, 2023 - “I thought that the only way to get out was to…

11 months ago

Australia Cracks Down on Illegal Sales to Reduce Teen Vaping

PROTECT THE CHILDREN –  May 2, 2023 - Vapes are only legal with a prescription in Australia, but Butler said…

12 months ago

Teen of the Week: Rohan Malik-Hamirani Helps With Addiction Fight

A YOUNG HEART OF GOLD –  April 22, 2023 - He learned about service from his parents, Dr. Rabina Malik-Hamirani…

12 months ago