Talking to teenagers about alcohol and drug use is an important task parents must shoulder if they want to keep their children safe, national substance abuse awareness representatives said Tuesday. Read more
I usually try to keep my blog upbeat and playful but today I want to just take a few minutes to talk about a very serious subject. One that as a parent I have to have on my mind quite a bit. As a mom of a teenager and a tween, I have two children [...]
The holidays can provide happiness and excitement as friends and family come together for celebrations. Yet, celebrations also provide increased opportunity for teens to experiment with alcohol as it becomes more accessible during the holiday period. Read more
Young people face added danger during this special season otherwise known for celebration and good cheer. The culprit? Often, it’s alcohol. School break offers up unstructured and perhaps unsupervised time and thus some significant risk — especially when we add in the propensity of some adults to promote alcohol-included events as a way to mark [...]
Youth from across Indiana combined creativity with public health as they created video public service announcements regarding the dangers of prescription drug abuse. The third annual KeepRxSafe.com Video Public Service Announcement Contest drew submissions from more than 70 participants ages 12-17. Nicole Wilson and Lynn Schulze of Jeffersonville, Ind., won the contest with their 30-second [...]
France, with a culture that embraces wine, is facing serious concerns about teenage binge drinking, NPR reports. Many parents in France and other European countries permit their teens to drink alcohol at home. But new French pop-up street parties, organized through Facebook, are encouraging teens to drink shots of vodka, and are contributing to a [...]
A new report shows that while the overall rate of substance abuse treatment admissions among those aged 12 and older in the U.S. has remained nearly the same from 1999 to 2009, there has been a dramatic rise (430 percent) in the rate of treatment admissions for the abuse of prescription pain relievers during this [...]
Overall 11.5 percent of all youths aged 16 to 17 drove under the influence of drugs or alcohol in the past year A new report shows that adolescents appear to be strongly influenced by parental behavior when it comes to driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The report conducted by the Substance Abuse [...]
State and federal bans, combined with the arrest of a man accused of being the area dealer, have slowed down Midland County’s ordeal with a new, and very dangerous, designer drug. Bath salts, a designer drug that has nothing to do with bathing products, is synthesized in overseas super labs then sold through the internet. [...]
Do you recall dinner hour at your house when you were growing up? Was there a set hour when your family sat down together to eat the evening meal? When your mother called you in from your outdoor activities and you knew you’d better get moving immediately because you had to wash your hands, ditch [...]
