Peer influence is an important factor in decision-making among adolescents. Parents, teachers, and other adults take a backseat, as tweens and teens start to consult friends their own age about choices and problems.
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If a foreign national triggers one of the US immigration drug-related criminal grounds of inadmissibility (section 212(a)(2) of the Immigration & Nationality Act), he or she could be permanently barred from entering the US. Most drug-related criminal inadmissibility is potentially
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The study mentioned in this post was published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health. A survey of 12- to 17-year-olds in the U.S. has found that about 20 percent said they have given their prescription drugs like Oxycontin and
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 16 (HealthDay News) — Heavy drinking is a growing problem among university students, but an Internet-based intervention may help them control their alcohol use, a new study finds. Researchers analyzed data from a Web-based alcohol-use screening test taken
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As incredible as it may seem, almost 400,000 Texans that will struggle with the disease of addiction this year and there are thousands more — family and friends — that will be directly affected. Here at The Right Step, we
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How much money would you say you spend on something like coffee? My boyfriend used to be an ardent coffee drinker. One day, we were talking about ways in which to save money and I brought up the fact that
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When you or a loved one has struggled with drug and alcohol abuse or drug and alcohol addiction, it is important to remember that recovery isn’t just something that takes place while you’re at the treatment center. You can’t expect
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It’s just an endless road where it keeps taking you farther and farther down that road…When you make a decision to take that step that way, instead of one step it’s like jumping off a cliff. [source: USA Today] This
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Statistics on Substance Abuse Among Women: 6 million women in the U.S. abuse or are dependent on alcohol Frequent binge drinking in women’s colleges increased by 124% between 1993 and 2001 Alcohol is involved in as many as 73% of
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An intervention is an arranged meeting between the addict/alcoholic and their close family members, friends, and possibly a neutral party like a therapist where the addict is lovingly confronted about their addiction or substance abuse problems. The key word and