Lord, I pray that we will be more considerate and not hesitate so much about helping others but will love and reach out to each other more freely. Help us consider it an honor and privilege to be able to help someone, no matter what their circumstances may be. Teach us to love more ...
“No one is immune to the disease of addiction,” warns Katherine Ketcham, the coauthor of thirteen books, including Teens Under the Influence: The Truth About Kids, Alcohol, and Other Drugs – How to Recognize the Problem and What to Do About It and the bestselling classic Under the In...
E-cigarettes or vaping devices are electronic products that heat a liquid or wax to produce an aerosol/vapour/smoke that you inhale and were created as nicotine delivery systems just like cigarettes. They come in many shapes and sizes from looking like cigarettes, to USB flash drives (JUUL), ...
Instead, laws that authorize marijuana use for medical purposes work on the belief that certain symptoms and diseases can be best treated with marijuana -- just as two Tylenol may help someone's headache. For example, marijuana has been shown to decrease nausea and increase appetite, which can...
How does marijuana affect teens? The effects of marijuana can be even more serious in young people. "There's a much higher risk in people whose brains are developing -- those 25 and under," says Kevin Hill, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and director of th...
While marijuana is more widely-accepted now than ever before, and has been shown to have health benefits in certain forms, current research doesn’t support its use in kids and teens. Per Mayo Clinic, using marijuana as a teen or young adult“can affect normal brain development, leading to...
Parents can influence when, how teens use alcohol and marijuana.Informs on a study which found that parents can influence, when and how teens use alcohol and marijuana.EBSCO_AspData the Brown University Digest of Addiction Theory & Application...
We don’t know how to help him. Like so many teens of his generation, my son, now 17, has always been adamantly anti-cigarettes. At age seven, he was horrified to spot someone smoking in a car. “Mom, did you see that? He was smoking!” he said, as if it was the most ...
Some young people begin to take drugs when they are in elementary school. Often their friends have persuaded them to do so. They are tempted by the excitement or escape that drugs seem to offer.Many teens b 17、elieve drugs will help them think better, be more popular, stay more active...
Most teens do not develop a substance use disorder after using drugs, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t vulnerable to a number of other risks. The side effects of various drugs differ. Marijuana Cigarettes Alcohol Stimulants Opioids