Doctors Aren't Medical Pot Gatekeepers

Doctors aren't medical pot gatekeepers

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Designating marijuana as just for medical use does not protect teens from abusing it. In fact, there is a high use of medical marijuana use among teens in substance-abuse treatment. A study in Denver showed that 74 percent of the teens in treatment had …
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Action Drug Overdose Awareness Day Candlelight Vigil Packs The Zone

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Action's candlelight vigil was the latest in a series of events and gatherings at the Action Family Zone designed to boost awareness of hard-drug abuse among teens and young people in the Santa Clarita Valley. Among the audience converging on the Zone …
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Study: Kindergarten behavior can predict later drug abuse

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Study: Kindergarten behavior can predict later drug abuse — but early intervention can help … A new study by Canadian social scientists finds boys who display anti-social behavior in kindergarten will likely abuse drugs later in life — unless they …
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Iran's mounting malaise

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Nonetheless, prostitution – estimated in 2000 by Tehran's Cultural Foundation as having risen by 635 percent among high school students since the late 1990s – continues unabated as more enter the sex trade in their early teens, according to Health …
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