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The Borg Challenge

Once again, I want to warn you about a dangerous party trend that’s gone viral and being promoted on TikTok. Known as the Borg challenge or drinking trend, the online videos quickly garnered over eighty-two million views. The word Borg…
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What Looks Good May Be Bad

I was only six or seven years old when I spotted a wrapped chocolate bar sitting on the kitchen counter. It was holiday time and my mom was getting ready to bake something but had left the room. The temptation…
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The Latest on Kids and Drugs

For the last forty-eight years, researchers at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan have been monitoring drug trends among teenagers, and reporting their findings annually in the Monitoring the Future Survey. The most recent survey indicates…
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Cannabis Use and the Brain

With the use of cannabis on the rise and increasingly accepted in our culture, it’s important that we reckon with the fact that its use does have an effect on one’s cognitive and psychological processing. A variety of recent studies…
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