Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime

Reclaiming Futures: Helping Kids Caught in the Cycle of Drugs, Alcohol and Crime — Nearly 2 million teenagers are arrested every year. Eighty percent test positive for drugs or alcohol, but the vast majority of juvenile justice systems neve…

Substitute Teacher Passes Out in Front of Students After Using Heroin
“Unfortunately, it was a very realistic show and tell where you can preach the message to students, but they got to see live, firsthand the effects of a drug addiction problem,” he said. Hopefully Chiapetta now realizes that the only drug any really …
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Port Townsend warning: Stay clear of shaky bluff
Stoch used the bluff as a location for his documentary “Clarity,” a cautionary tale about teen drug abuse. He said he doesn't expect the latest instance to discourage visits to the End of the World. “This is a special place to be,” he said, “We never …
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Camps for troubled kids can be magnets for abuse
The methods allegedly used at some treatment facilities for at-risk teens have been a regular source of legal trouble for their operators since the programs became common 30 years ago. A 2007 GAO report found thousands of …. Covall also said that …
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Young brains and drugs
While it might take two to three times as much alcohol to set a teenager staggering, a teenager's hippocampus, or memory center, is significantly more impaired than an adult's, she said, and not just while under the influence. Memory tests conducted on …
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