The burn wounds of a pregnant 19-year-old woman recently led officials to bust a crystal meth lab in Tennessee. She and three other people were charged with cooking crystal meth soon after she received treatment for minor burns incurred while “cooking dope,” according to DNJ.com. While she was taken to Middle Tennessee Medical Center for [...]
Continue ReadingBinge drinking is a problem in all age groups, but college-aged young people are more likely than any other group to indulge in the behavior. In fact, on a survey recently conducted by Studentbeans.com found that 20 percent of students say that they couldn’t get through a semester without drinking, and at least 66 percent [...]
Continue ReadingAnyone who tuned in to NBC’s competitive singing show The Voice was no doubt blown away by the backstory of contestant Jamar Rogers. Before each audition begins, the show airs an interview with each competitor which provides the highlights, and for some the lowlights, of their life thus far. Watching Rogers hard at work as [...]
Continue ReadingAfter years of studying the dynamics of families with addiction, namely alcoholism, codependency was identified as a disorder that grows out of maladaptive coping skills. It is a learned behavior that may be passed from one generation to the next and impedes individuals from having healthy, mutually fulfilling relationships. Often codependency is referred to as [...]
Continue ReadingA new caffeine product has hit the shelves in both New York and Massachusetts called Aeroshot and it is being sold with no age restrictions at convenience stores. This most recent way to get mega doses of caffeine was developed and brought to market by a Harvard biomedical engineering professor named David Edwards. He claims [...]
Continue ReadingThe availability and misuse of prescription medications have skyrocketed nationwide, even with students on college campuses. The American College Health Association Survey reported that nearly 14 percent of students during one school year at Northern Arizona University admitted to abusing prescription medications. In other words, they were taking prescription drugs that had not been prescribed [...]
Continue ReadingPast research has shown that alcohol-related problems on university campuses peak during the initial few weeks freshman arrive on campus. A student’s drinking behavior during these beginning weeks of their first year may very well set the tone for the rest of their time in school. The hope of a new Penn State study done [...]
Continue ReadingAwareness of how to live a healthy life with the help of nutrition and exercise education in schools could potentially be life-saving – if not at least life-prolonging – programs with the high rates of obesity in America’s youth. However, many parents are becoming concerned that the approach many of these programs take may not [...]
Continue ReadingThe friendships that we make in childhood and the teen years can shape who we become in adulthood. When it comes to the development of alcohol and drug abuse or addiction, peer relationships are one of the primary factors that determine whether or not a teenager will avoid illicit substances completely or experiment repeatedly, until [...]
Continue ReadingThe other day, we posted on the topic of early signs of drug abuse in teenagers. Environmental, interpersonal, parental – there are a lot of reasons that a child may eventually grow into a teenager who abuses drugs and alcohol. A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, however, is trying to push through the [...]
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