Worse Than the “Seen” Ones? –
July 26, 2019 – What they’re saying: “These kids have behaviors that we often see in patients who have opioid or marijuana addiction, but we didn’t typically see with kids who developed addiction to traditional tobacco cigarettes,” Sharon Levy, director of the Adolescent Substance Use and Addiction Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, told the Post.“We kind of lost four years of Cade to this addiction,” Kristin Beauparlant told the Post, speaking about her son. Now that he has cut back, “He just seems like a different kid. You can’t help but say there’s a correlation.”Juul CEO Kevin Burns apologized last week to parents whose teens are addicted to the company’s products. He said the company doesn’t currently know the impact of chronic vaping and has not done “long-term, longitudinal, clinical testing.”
