How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development

How Drug Abuse Affects Teenage Brain Development – Dr. Annette Bosworth discusses how alcohol and drugs change the adolescent brain affecting mood and memory.

Solo rock stars at greater risk to die early

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The study also hints that rockers who live hard, risky lives with lots of drugs and alcohol often have something in common with non-famous people who take similar risks: childhoods made difficult by factors from abuse and neglect to sick or missing …
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Single assessment for needs to speed treatment and save tax dollars

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Since 1997, the sole entry into mental health, alcohol or drug addiction services in the county was through an assessment at Samaritan CrisisCare. That meant people in need of services were evaluated both at a hospital, in jail, through the courts, a …
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