Fentanyl An Online Drug Threat
Fentanyl is a pharmaceutical synthetic opioid drug that is approved as a pain killer. The drug, which is fifty times more potent than morphine, is typically prescribed in the form of transdermal patches or lozenges. Not surprisingly, Fentanyl is also…
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Pushing Back on Teen Drug Abuse
The CDC reports that drug overdose deaths in the United States were four times more common in 2018 than they were just twenty years earlier. The CDC also reports that drug overdose deaths increased by thirty percent during the pandemic.…
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Kids, Binge Drinking, and the Brain
Besides warning our kids about the spiritual and legal issues related to underage drinking, we must also warn them about the damage that underage drinking does to their still not-fully-formed brains. In today’s world, some of our kids are engaging…
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Positive News on Kids and Drug Use
One good bid of news coming out of the pandemic is that the percentage of adolescents reporting drug use decreased significantly in 2021. This news comes from the long-running annual Monitoring the Future Survey. The 2021 survey reports significant decreases…
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