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Freshman Drinkers Much More Likely to Experience Sexual Assault
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Freshmen girls who engage in at least one incident of binge drinking have a 1 in 4 chance of being sexually assaulted during their first semester at college. This says a new study released today in the Rutgers University Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
In yet another example of what many would claim to be science corroborating… Continue reading
American First: Drug Overdoses Outpace Traffic Deaths
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Do you live in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or Connecticut? If you do, you no longer have to feel alone with a particularly dubious distinction. For the first time in any of our lifetimes, the average American is now more likely to die from a drug overdose than from a car crash. It’s an unprecedented mortality rate that, until recently… Continue reading
Heroin in a Breath Strip
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A new drug has hit the streets in an alarming new form. It’s an opiate, like heroin or oxycontin, and it comes in the form of sublingual film. Users simply remove the film from the packet and place it under their tongue. It dissolves in 2 to 10 minutes, and takes effect almost immediately.
The drug goes by the… Continue reading
Does Marijuana Use Lead to ADHD Treatment?
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Substance abuse professionals have been worriedly tracking increasing rates of marijuana use amongst teens and tweens. At the same time, prescription rates for psychological stimulants, such as Ritalin and Adderall have been blowing through all previous barriers. While the early assumptions as to why this is happening are not so surprising, they are certainly alarming.
Many high school and… Continue reading
Powertalk21: Time to Talk to Our Kids
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Every day, 13 American teenagers die as a result of abusing alcohol. Kids who start drinking in their teens, are several times more likely to develop addiction problems, than are those who wait until it is legal. Teen drinkers are also more likely to allow their own kids to drink underage, when it becomes their time to parent. It’s a… Continue reading
Teens Getting High on Bath Salts
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The White House Office of the National Drug Control Policy just released an alarming statement pertaining to the abuse of bath salts as a way to get high. Products such as Ivory Wave, Red Dove, Purple Haze or Vanilla Sky are readily available for purchase by both teens and adults. Sold as bath salts or plant food… Continue reading
Texting Linked to Sex and Drugs
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If you’ve ever thought about your hyper-texting teen and said to yourself,
“Better she spend her time texting than (doing blank)”
it’s probably time to rethink your approach. Research shows that the top teen texters are 200 percent more likely to have tried alcohol, 90 percent more likely to have had four or more sexual partners and 41 percent… Continue reading
New Drink Dubbed “Blackout in a Can”
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You’ll find it on the shelf labeled as Four Loko, but college drinkers refer to it as “Blackout in a Can“. Just months after the major alcohol companies were pressured into pulling their dangerous alcohol-pop drinks from the market, a smaller company called Phusion Projects rushed in to fill the void.
As soon as Four Loko began flying off… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Alcohol In Whipped Cream?!
Posted by: | CommentsA deceptively intoxicating product is now hitting the shelves in the form of a traditional dessert favorite. Whipped cream infused with alcohol has already been banned in one state, and is setting the stage for some interesting dialogue. Continue reading | 1 Comment
I Can Stalk U: Geotagging Gone Wild
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Parents have a new reason to be concerned about the photos their children are posting online. And this one has nothing to do with a lack of clothes or poor judgment. In a terrifying twist of technology, it seems a great many people are unknowingly giving away their address, every time they post a new photo to the internet or… Continue reading | 1 Comment