Kids Greatest Pressures
Over the course of my three decades studying youth culture, I’ve regularly asked parents about what they think are the greatest pressures facing teenagers today. Typically, parents will cite things like peer pressure, drinking, and bullying. What parents might not…
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Dietary Supplement Abuse
We live in a world where our kids are encouraged to find and build their identity around physical characteristics, including appearance and performance. It should come as no surprise that more and more kids are turning to dietary supplements to…
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How Marijuana Damages Young Brains
Despite the shift in attitudes regarding marijuana that have taken place in response to continued legalization, health professionals are reminding us that this does not change the fact that the drug is not safe for high school and college students.…
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Deaths of Despair
Whenever I read history and encounter statistics on life expectancy rates here in the United States, I am surprised. If you go back to the year eighteen hundred, the average life expectancy was thirty-seven years. By nineteen hundred, that had…
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