Girls, Social Media, and Suicide
New research, reported in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, is telling us that as teens use of social media has grown over the last ten years, so too has the suicide rate among young people. Suicide is now the…
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Opioid Overdoses
The latest statistics on opioid overdoses here in the United States serve as a stark reminder of just how bad the opioid crisis has gotten. What’s even more alarming is the fact that a quarter of all opioid overdoses involve…
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5 Youth Culture Trends
U.S. News and World Report recently ran a piece entitled “Five Concerning Trends That Affect The Health of the iGeneration.” Each the of the five trends warrant our attention and our response. First, there’s the reality of our kids spending…
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