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Teen Pot Use Out-Smokes Tobacco

January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment

For 12th-graders, declines in cigarette use accompanied by recent increases in marijuana use have put marijuana ahead of cigarette smoking by some measures. In 2010, 21.4 percent of high school seniors used marijuana in the past 30 days, while 19.2 percent smoked cigarettes.

To read more on this alarming trend; http://www.nida.nih.gov/newsroom/10/NR12-14.html

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20% of Teens Tried Prescription Drugs

July 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Prescription for Disaster

The DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) has published the results of a survey about teens and prescription drugs. Prescription For Disaster: how teens abuse medicine is an excellent resource for parents.

  • One in five teens have tried prescription drugs.
  • One in ten teens report abusing cough medicine.
  • Two in five teens think that prescription drugs are safer than illegal drugs.
  • One in three teens believe that there is nothing wrong with using prescription drugs once in a while.
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Attachment and Dependency,

June 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Attachment, is believing that without a particular thing or person, you can not be happy. (Anthony De Mello)

What a simple and profound definition of addiction. The interesting thing is that this explains Co-dependency as well as it does a drug dependency.

“If you my dear child, are not happy, than I can’t be happy.”

So our kids get high to be happy and we make our happiness contingent on their happiness.

What a viscious cycle of insanity!

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