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Beating Stress: Healthy Habits, Healthy Brains

Stress, Relapse, and Healthy Coping Stressed. Photo courtesy of Sander van der Wel(CC ShareALike) This presentation reports on the trend of increasing stress levels among teens, especially college students.  It examines the stress response...

What Are Teens Thinking?!

The Straight Facts About The Social-Networking, Risk-Taking, Still-Developing Teens Brain Teens. To an extent teenage rebellion is a normal part of the development of individual personalities on the path to adulthood.  Teens undergo rapid...

Sex. Drugs, and Alcohol

Parents Still Influence College Kids’ Risky Behavior & Alcohol Use, Study Shows Alcohol. Photo courtesy of Arthur40A(CC ShareALike) This ScienceDaily article reports the results of a Brigham Young University study that suggests delayed formation...

Is Lowering The Drinking Age A Good Idea?

Photo courtesy of Youssef Shoufan This Los Angeles Times article by Jessica Pauline Ogilvie reviews two perspectives on lowering the legal drinking age.  Advocates of a lower drinking age point to the tendency of...

What Does ‘Moderate’ Drinking Really Mean?

‘Moderate’ Drinking vs. Binge Drinking ‘Moderate’ Drinking. Photo courtesy of stopalcoholdeaths(CC Attribution) This short Washington Post article by JLH reports on the Mayo Clinic’s definition of moderate drinking: “no more than two drinks per day...

Addiction: The Disease That Lies

Addiction Explained Photo courtesy of Marrinc Dr. Marvin Seppala, chief medical officer of Hazelden, wrote this article for CNN Health in the wake of Glee star Cory Monteith’s death. Dr. Seppala explains that addiction...