The opioid crisis continues to take a tol. The overdose death rate for 15-to-19 s surged 19% in 2015, driven by fentanyl and heroin.
Jan 06, 2017 · Inside a Killer Drug Epidemic: A Look at America’s Opioid Crisis. The opioid epidemic killed more than 33,000 people in 2015. What follows are stories of a national affliction that has swept the country, from cities on the West Coast to bedroom communities in the Northeast.
Apr 06, 2018 · A sharp spike in vaping and the use of e-cigarettes by students has grabbed the attention of the US Food and Drug Administration.
Jun 29, 2011 · Teen drug use shouldn’t be looked at as a rite of passage but as a public health problem, say experts, and one that has reached “epidemic” levels. In a new report on drug, alcohol and tobacco use among teens in the U.S.
Botswana is experiencing one of the most severe HIV/AIDS epidemics in the world.The national HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15 to 49 is 24.8 percent, which is the third highest in the world, behind Lesotho and Swaziland.
The Anxiety Epidemic in s and Teens: A Workshop for Clinicians, a Cape Cod 2018 workshop led by Paul Foxman.
Overview. In most countries the incidence of suicides is higher than the incidence of intentional homicides.More people suicide than die of war and murder.
Sexting is the clever new name for the act of sending, receiving, or forwarding naked photos via your cell phone. I wasn’t fully persuaded that America was facing a sexting epidemic, as opposed to a journalists-writing-about-sexting epidemic, until I saw a new survey done by the National Campaign To Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.
U.S. gay community reeling from ‘epidemic’ of suicides among teenagers taunted over sexuality. By Richard James Updated: 12:25 EDT, 1 October 2010
OPINION | On average, teens reported stress levels of 5.8 on 10-point scale, compared with 5.1 for adults.
