youth

Anti-Vaping Sensors and CCTV in Schools: Is the UK Joining In?

Some schools in the United Kingdom have begun using CCTV and sensors in an attempt to detect and stop student…

April 4, 2023

National Teen Survey Shows Static Drug-Use Rates Amid Increased Risks

Young America is in crisis, depicts a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report on teenage mental health…

February 15, 2023

We Need Harm Reduction Built for and Led by Youth Who Use Drugs

Young people use drugs. We need to accept this reality, and give them what they need to survive and thrive.…

February 10, 2023

California Now Requires Naloxone Access on College Campuses

California is now requiring most public universities and colleges to offer students free naloxone, as well as provide trainings on…

January 3, 2023

How to Read the CDC’s Confusingly Presented Youth Vaping Data

I don’t think I’d ever heard of the annual National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS), conducted annually by the Centers for…

November 10, 2022

New CDC Data Show Modest Rise in Youth Vaping, Spark Overreactions

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) doubled down on what’s still being touted as a youth vaping “epidemic”…

October 6, 2022

How to Respond Sensibly to an Increase in Youth Vaping

For the past few years, the United States public health community has been amplifying irrational fears among certain sections of…

September 15, 2022

Extracting Juul Settlement Is About the Money, Not the Truth

Juul is back in the news, this time for tentatively agreeing to pay a whopping $438.5 million in a multistate…

September 13, 2022

Why Aren’t We Celebrating the End of Teenage Smoking?

When I was a teen in a small Midwestern town in the 1970s, the US high school smoking rate was…

September 12, 2022

Legalization Doesn’t Lead More Teens to Try Cannabis, Researchers Find

A perennial question around legalizing cannabis for adults is whether it leads to more young people trying the drug. According…

August 2, 2022