Fentanyl Overdoses and Teens
Today, I want to make you aware of some discouraging new research regarding teens and drug use from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. After reviewing the data from 2020, it was discovered that overdoses linked to synthetic opioids…
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Marijuana and the Teen Brain
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re aware of the growing legalization of marijuana and its acceptance for recreational use. According the 2021 Monitoring the Future Survey, thirty point five percent of high school seniors report using marijuana in…
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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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