Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime

Published October 16, 2013

Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime – Nearly 2 million teenagers are arrested every year. Eighty percent test positive for drugs or alcohol, but the vast majority of juvenile justice systems neve…

WVCC to host pill disposal on Oct. 26

Filed under: drug abuse help for teenagers

… Chase Bank and the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, the event is part of a nationwide effort to reduce the number of expired or unwanted medications in the home that could fall into the hands of unknowing children or teens looking to abuse them. It …
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Drug use associated with early puberty, study finds

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University of Texas public health researcher Jessica Duncan Cance and colleagues from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that early-blooming teenagers are more likely to have tried cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana than peers …
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