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Prevalence and predictors of injection drug use and risky sexual behaviors among adolescents in substance treatment
This research's results were published in the American Journal of Addiction in November 2013. Study title: Prevalence and predictors of injection drug use and risky sexual behaviors among adolescents in substance treatment. Co-authors: Thurstone C, Salomonsen-Sautel...
Dishware teaches healthy eating for kids
A Colorado company has designed dishware aimed at helping families chart an easier path to healthy living by watching their food portions at mealtime. Livliga -- a name that comes from a Swedish word meaning lively, vibrant or vivid -- sells dining ware and serving...
More funds for Colorado youth substance treatment
Even before Colorado formally opens recreational pot shops at the start of next year, people recognize the toll marijuana already has taken on young people in this state and the need to expand access to addiction treatment for them. I am pleased to announce --...
Make it a Red Ribbon Week!
It's exciting to see the red ribbons unfurling nationwide! Red Ribbon Week, sponsored by the National Family Partnership since 1988, aims to educate youth about the perils of drug use — and to encourage their participation in drug-use-prevention activities. But make...
How Mr. Cheney should’ve answered Dr. Gupta
This week, Dr. Sanjay Gupta's sometimes contentious interview with former United States Vice President Richard "Dick" Cheney appeared on CBS' "60 Minutes." The doctor aggressively questioned -- OK, it would be fair to say "hammered" -- Mr. Cheney about whether his...
Rob Corry: Pot’s fearless leader
Why is Colorado lawyer Rob Corry still permitted to practice law? And what else has to happen before he recognizes his life is a far greater cause to champion than marijuana legalization? Mr. Corry, 46, is one of the nation's prominent voices supporting marijuana...
Our time with pot will tell
Today, United States Attorney General Eric Holder announced our nation's Department of Justice is taking a "trust-but-verify" approach to marijuana that allows the states of Colorado and Washington to proceed with tax-and-licensing schemes for retail sales of this...
Breathes, er, Boyd blows it
Denver's alt-weekly newspaper, Westword, is heavily subsidized by the marijuana industry -- so of course it has a pot critic who basically gets high for a living to enlighten the rest of us about Colorado dispensaries and whether this strain of weed is better than...
Colorado grants more pot licenses to youth
The number of Coloradans ages 18-20 who have been granted medical marijuana licenses has increased every year for the last four and appears on track to increase again in 2013, according to data released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment....
Why worry about lead, but not weed?
A few months ago, Jody Hensley, a sharp thinker and supporter of the nonprofit Massachusetts Prevention Alliance and co-coordinator of SAM Massachusetts, which seeks to curb drug abuse and addiction in the Commonwealth, asked a great question at an event in Boston...
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.