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This Groundbreaking Insight May Be Your Teen’s Best Defense Against Addiction...
“The best thing for being sad … is to learn something,” the magician Merlin counsels his young pupil, Wart, in the fantasy classic The Once and Future King. And the latest insights from science seem to...
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What Does It Mean to Be A Teen With Borderline Personality Traits?
Borderline personality disorder, also known as BPD, is a mental illness categorized as a mood disorder. Someone with BPD typically has unstable moods, difficulty with relationships and erratic...
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Here’s a Quick, Easy Way to Boost Your Teen’s Self-Esteem and Build a More...
If you have a typical teenager, chances are their self-esteem could use a lift: Acne outbreaks. Wardrobe crises. Concerns about body image. Relationship dramas. Romantic crushes. And, not to be...
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LGBT Hispanic Community Making Big Strides
Members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Hispanic community and their supporters made waves last year. These publicly visible people, organizations and events helped bring awareness...
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You Caught Your Teen Smoking, Now What?
People still smoke, which is hard to believe given everything we know about the health hazards. Among American adults, 18 percent of the population, or 42 million people, still smoke. Still, the rate...
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Teens and Steroid Abuse
Steroid use among teens is a major problem because of the negative health consequences that can result. Among all drugs abused by teens, steroids are not the most popular, but they can be extremely...
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Brief Strategic Family Therapy Helps Parents, Teens Cut Substance Use
Parents affected by serious drug or alcohol problems can experience a serious decline in their parenting skills and ability to maintain a stable household environment. Potential consequences of this...
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Ashley Madison’s Dearth of Female Users: What It Reveals About Married Women...
Since last month’s Ashley Madison hack and, subsequently, a massive public data dump of personal information on millions of cheating spouses, from their emails and credit card information to their most...
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Are Your Loved Ones Harming Your Addiction Recovery?
When you’re recovering from addiction, the people who love you the most are probably very happy and relieved. Often they are so glad you’re sober that they want to do everything they can to help you on...
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LGB Teens More Likely to Binge Drink
A 2014 study from the University of Southern California School of Social Work in cooperation with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles found that teens who identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual experience...
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How Much Support is Good for Someone in Recovery?
Someone facing addiction issues recently discussed being encouraged to seek professional therapy. The response? Speaking with a clergy member was help enough. Others might insist that friends and...
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Emotional Trauma Common but Mysterious in Children
Research shows that a significant number of children in the United States are exposed to events that can result in emotional trauma. Community samples estimate that as many as two-thirds of children in...
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Increased Risk of Addiction for Teens Prescribed Medication for Anxiety or...
Teenagers who are prescribed sleep or anti-anxiety medications are at a much increased risk of becoming dependent on them than those who are not, reports a recent University of Michigan study published...
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Do I Need to Go to Rehab for Binge Drinking?
If you read up on binge drinking, what it is, the facts, the risks and the statistics, you might be surprised to learn that you binge drink more often than you realized. Does this mean you have a...
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Sneaky Warning Signs That Your Teen May Be Using Drugs
If you’re one of those parents who thinks her teen would never in a million years use drugs, and you cite her straight-A report card and extracurricular activities as proof, you could be making a...
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How to Rebuild Relationships After Rehab
When you go to rehab for addiction, you have one thing on your mind: getting better. Rehab, in a way, is a selfish thing. In order to succeed at getting sober, you have to focus on you. When you leave...
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Can Recovering Addicts Ever Be Normal?
When you were an active drug addict or alcoholic, the life you lived was far from normal. You may have cut ties with people and activities that were important to you so that you could continue to...
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The 5 Love Languages of Dating, Mating and Relating
Imagine a woman up to her elbows in soapy dishwater after she’s mopped the kitchen floor, vacuumed the living room, and changed the litter box. Her partner comes home from work — then promptly...
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Racial Background Affects Your Risk for Alcoholic Liver Disease
New research from a team of American scientists points to substantially varying levels of risk for alcoholic liver disease in people with different racial/ethnic backgrounds. Any person who repeatedly...
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When Alcohol Causes Insomnia, Suicide Is More Likely
Alcohol consumers affected by insomnia have increased chances of contemplating suicide or attempting suicide, according to recent findings from a team of American researchers. Doctors and researchers...
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