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 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
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