Category Archives: Children and Adolescents

Tips for Teens: Tobacco (SAMHSA)

Tobacco—cigarettes, smokeless tobacco, and snuff—damages your health. Smoking, which is the most common cause of lung cancer, is also a leading cause of cancer of the mouth, throat, bladder, pancreas, ...

Stress-Free Holiday Help for Parents

When it comes to the holidays and family, we can all agree that there is nothing as magical as children’s excitement as they await the big event. We want those moments to be perfect for our little one ...

Eating Disorders (ABCT Fact Sheet)

We eat to live and eating is an important focus for our family and social lives. In a country like the United States, food is readily available. But large amounts of food put us at risk for the three ...

ADHD (ABCT Fact Sheet)

People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have difficulties in sustaining attention to tasks, particularly if they demand more effort than usual. They have significant problems with ...

Prescription and OTC Medications (NIDA)

Some medications have psychoactive (mind-altering) properties and, because of that, are sometimes abused—that is, taken for reasons or in ways or amounts not intended by a doctor, or taken by someone ...

Marijuana Facts for Teens (NIDA)

Did you know that teen marijuana use has dropped dramatically since the late 1990s? So, if you were thinking everyone smokes marijuana, they don’t. Statistics show that about 7 percent, or roughly 1 i ...

High School and Youth Trends (NIDA)

2014’s Monitoring the Future survey of drug use and attitudes among American 8th, 10th, and 12th graders continued to show encouraging news about youth drug use, including decreasing use of alcohol, c ...