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Posted under The Family
How to Help Your Teen Counter Peer Pressure to Drink and Do Drugs
Every day there are news accounts of people doing outrageous things, behavior they’d never dream of doing normally, but they’ve been influenced by their peers. It happens everywhere and among all age groups and across all demographics. But perhaps the most susceptible individuals are living right under your roof: your teenage son or daughter. The pressure from friends to drink and do drugs can be hard to resist. Fortunately there are some things that you as parents can do to help your teen counter such peer pressure and steer clear of alcohol and drugs. Let’s look at a few of them.
Posted under Video Game
Problem Gaming Linked with Several Problem Behaviors
Although addiction to video games affects a small percentage of the teenage population, a new study is showing that more behavioral conditions are associated with problem gaming than may have previously been understood.
Posted under Teens
Teens Experience Longer-Lasting Repercussions from Drug Use
Alcohol and drug use by teens is sometimes treated as a rite of passage, and is perhaps thought to be less serious than adult drug use. Although teen drug use may worry parents about their children’s physical health, social relations, academic performance, or immediate danger, the threat to teen’s future mental health can sometimes be overlooked. Yet researchers are saying that teenagers respond dramatically different to drug exposure compared to adults, spurring long-term damages to brain development and cognition.
Posted under Marijuana
More Teens Experimenting With Marijuana, and Doing it Sooner
The current news concerning marijuana and young people isn’t exactly positive. A National Survey on Drug Use and Health report said that not only are more adolescents using the drug, they’re starting at an even younger age.
Experts say the brain capacity of young teens is still actively developing until they reach young adulthood, so getting an early start with marijuana could mean developmental programs, lessened motor skills and even sicknesses of the respiratory system for years down the road.
Posted under Cigarette Addiction
Ontario High-School Students Smoking Contraband Cigarettes
Contraband tobacco accounts for 43 percent of all cigarettes smoked by high-school students in Ontario, Canada. Researchers from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) examined the smoking habits of Ontario students, finding that among high schoolers, 50 percent smoked at least one contraband cigarette per day in the last year.
Posted under Cigarette Addiction
Teens Who Self-Medicate with Smoking Suffer More Depressive Symptoms
Smoking seems to intensify stress and depressive symptoms in teenagers who resort to smoking cigarettes to alleviate their pain, a new study shows.
Posted under Teens
Teens Who Drink More Likely to Take Part in Violent Behaviors
Alcohol abuse carries many social ramifications, running the gamut from depression to embarrassment. For teens, however, aggression can be a particularly damaging side effect of alcohol abuse. Research on adolescent alcohol abuse shows a link between fighting, a tendency for violent actions and even gang activity for teens who drink.
Posted under Teens
Teens Tend to Drink More During Summer Before College
Parents of high-school seniors beware: A new study has found that teens tend to increase their alcohol consumption during the summer before they start college. Mark Wood, a psychology professor at the University of Rhode Island and a well-known alcohol researcher, says that parents should keep a closer eye on their children during this time period, making sure they know what their kids are doing and with whom.
Posted under Mental Health
Cyberbullying Linked to Increases in Mental Health Problems in Teens
For children growing up in the technological generation, the threat of bullying has excelled to a new playing field. Nowadays, adolescents have the capacity to harass each other through cell phones, text messaging, picture messaging, e-mail, chat rooms, social networks, and beyond. New scientific data is revealing that both teenage victims and perpetrators of cyberbullying undergo notably similar psychological and emotional conditions.
Posted under Teens
Adolescents with Respiratory Conditions Using Deadly Inhalants to Get High
Huffing, or using inhalants to get “high,” is increasing in popularity among adolescents, and a new study has found that one in 20 young people with serious respiratory conditions have used deadly inhalants in the past year.
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