Thursday, July 30th, 2009
22.9 million Americans report trying inhalants at least once in their lives.
When it comes to drug use problems, inhalants are often the first drugs that young children decide to experiment with. The habit is often called huffing. While use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and other drugs peaks around ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Here are some drug use statistics:
Over 80% of adolescents engage in some form of deviant behavior (1).
Over 50% of high-school seniors admit to having used drugs (2).
Only 10%-15% of the population develop drug addiction problems related to their drug use (1).
The question is:
If the majority of teens experiment ...
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Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
Today, I'll give a short summary of a few interesting talks I saw at the conference:
Teenage smoking - Children of mothers who used drugs during pregnancy had abnormal stress hormone levels. When assessed over time, their abnormal stress response was associated with an earlier onset (age of first use) of ...
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