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Life is never boring when you have two teenagers at home and especially with one that likes to live on the edge. I don’t know whether it is the time change or just the stress of it all, but I have been going to bed very early lately.
My youngest son seems to have turned himself [...]
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This link also came to me from my friends at Addiction and Recovery news:No One Deserves to Die by Overdose | DrugReporter | AlterNet.
I wanted to share the last paragraph of the article with you:
We need to accept the reality that people will always use drugs, whether legal or illegal, prescribed or sold on the [...]
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Everyday I read many blogs and websites about teens, teen issues, parenting teens and what not about life with a teen. Many of them are very good and most are basically marketing to promote services or products. I like the real life articles, that assist me in understanding how to deal with my emotions and [...]
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When I walked into the expo hall at Stitches West Friday afternoon and I was immediately breathless and overwhelmed. I have attended expos and conferences for industries I am excited about such as Search Marketing, Computer Programming, but never before had I felt an emotion like this. I also felt somewhat awkward, out of place and did not know where [...]
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The 12th bi-annual California Student Survey (CSS) results are out for the 2007-2008 school year. The survey is conducted by the Crime and Violence Prevention Center, California Attorney General’s Office. For the first time the California Student Survey included questions about recreational use of prescription pharmaceuticals such as painkillers.
The study involved 13,930 students from 115 [...]
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Here are the facts about Heroin in our teen communities. One time a drug that only was seen in big cities is now moving into the suburbs. This report by US News and World Report clarifies information that I was startled to hear existed in my own community. From what I understand, the reason for [...]
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A recent study was performed on 488 children ages 7-17 to determine what can help with anxiety, the biggest study of its kind. There were four test groups that received only therapy, drugs and therapy, or drugs alone. Overwhelming success was found with all three treatments. At six centers around the country they randomly assigned each group to four [...]
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We sent our son to a Teen Wilderness Therapy Program last year and I was reading through my journal. Looking back realizing our family was in great turmoil, the guilt, the shame, lack of sleep, loss of work, wondering how your teen is doing, and the never ending pain in your heart [...]
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