Dr. Christian Thurstone speaks on dangers of teen vaping with Fox 31
The United States Food and Drug Administration on June 23, 2022, issued marketing denial orders to JUUL Labs Inc., for all of their products currently marketed in the United States, effectively banning the maker of e-cigarette devices and other vaping products from...
Thurstone speaks with The Economist about overdose deaths
The headline above the May 15 report in The Economist gets straight to the point: “Last year, more people in San Francisco died of overdoses than COVID-19.” As reported: “While covid-19 rampaged across the country, America’s other epidemic has...
Vaping victim: ‘We’re going to end up on oxygen in our 20s and 30s’
Dr. Christian Thurstone, director of Behavioral Health Services at Denver Health and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently told ABC Channel 7 in Denver he knows why teens and young adults get hooked on vaping. It’s the...
Thurstone named 5280 ‘Top Doc’ for 9th consecutive year
I am deeply grateful to all of the Colorado physicians who took the time to recognize my work with a ninth consecutive “Top Doc” award in 5280 magazine. Thank you. Substance Use Disorder is one of our country’s most damaging and pressing public...
Thurstone to Colorado Public Radio: State has almost no treatment for kids who vape
I am glad for this report from Colorado Public Radio about the state’s highly disturbing rate of teen vaping and its lack of resources to help these young people beat an addiction that studies show affects their brain development and increases the likelihood...Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.