Adolescent Substance Abuse Risk Factors | Child Psychology
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West End teens say heroin use 'explosive' in Virginia suburbs
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A 2012 drug abuse survey found that 669,000 people over the age of 12 reported using heroin that year. And 156,000 were first-time users. While some are seeking help, a majority are not. Also frightening is that just last year 20% of 12th graders …
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EDITORIAL: State needs to treat teens as adolescents and not adults in courtrooms
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Contrast the way the recent death by heroin overdose of Philip Seymour Hoffman has been treated in the media — as a tragic case of addiction — with the way the narcotics trade is usually treated — as a threat to civilized society. Especially in the …
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Three Stones Wellness Opens Home for Teens with Alcohol and Drug Issues
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"There is a huge, unmet need for help for adolescents suffering from substance abuse," says Thorp, a mother of two daughters. Thorp holds a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University, where she was Director of the …
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