Tag: youth
Teenagers Pathologized by Traditional Addiction Treatment
When Alice* was 12 years old, her mother discovered some diary entries she had ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
California Now Requires Naloxone Access on College Campuses
California is now requiring most public universities and colleges to offer students free naloxone, ...
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), ...
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 ...
How to Respond Sensibly to an Increase in Youth Vaping
For the past few years, the United States public health community has been amplifying ...
Extracting Juul Settlement Is About the Money, Not the Truth
Juul is back in the news, this time for tentatively agreeing to pay a ...
Why Aren’t We Celebrating the End of Teenage Smoking?
When I was a teen in a small Midwestern town in the 1970s, the ...
