Parents and Drugs
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Community, Drugs, Parents, Prevention
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A search was made to assess what research has been done in the areas of parent surveys and parent programmes for drug prevention with children – most research on drug prevention education has been done in the late 1970s, early […]
What influences young people to take drugs?
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- Jun-08-2025
- Parents
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It is important to distinguish between experimental and problem drug use. While more than a third of 16 year old students in the UK say they have tried at least one illegal drug, only a very small percentage go on […]
Involving Parents in Drugs Prevention
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Community, Drugs, Parents
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The team which was responsible for evaluating the DPI’s projects working with parents has an unequivocal message in this paper:
Parents and family environment have a strong influence on the drug-taking behaviour of their children.
Parents can be educated and supported to […]
Strengthening Families Program
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Community, Drugs, Parents
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Strengthening Families is a selective multicomponent, family-focused program that provides prevention programming for 6-10-year-old children of substance abusers. The program began as an effort to help substance-abusing parents improve their parenting skills and reduce their children’s risk factors. The program […]
Parents’ concerns, attitudes, and needs
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- Jun-08-2025
- Parents, Prevention
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Parents play a key role in their children’s education and social development and therefore can be influential in educating their children about drugs. Despite this, there has been little research done to date that explores parents’ perceptions. This paper reports […]
Learning Theory
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Parents
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Perhaps the simplest explanation for tobacco’s gateway drug function involves what teenagers learn when they smoke cigarettes. According to one source, “. . .the gateway drug phenomenon is simply an example of practice conditioning, that leads to the development of […]
A Healthy Start: Some Parenting Practices May Protect Youth From Early Marijuana Use
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Drugs, Parents, Prevention
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Parenting practices during the middle years of elementary school, such as supervision and monitoring, may affect adolescent initiation of marijuana use, according to a new NIDA-supported study conducted by Dr. Chuan-Yu Chen and colleagues from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg […]
The Top Seven of Teen Substance Use Trends Parents Need to Know in 2025
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Drugs, Parents, Prevention
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by Pat Aussem, L.P.C., M.A.C., Vice President, Consumer Clinical Content Development – June 2025
Personalized support for addressing your child’s substance use or addiction
(available in English and Spanish)
Fentanyl poisoning & counterfeit pills
According to the CDC, deaths from fentanyl poisoning are […]
Teens Learn about the Many Risks of Vaping — Nicotine and THC Are More Potent, Addictive, and Dangerous than Ever
- ANN_PETER
- Jun-08-2025
- Drugs, Parents, Prevention
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by Barbara A. Preston | www.themontynews.org – June 6, 2025
Montgomery Police and Health Department officials are partnering to raise awareness about the dangers of vaping and substance abuse. They sponsored a program at Montgomery High School on Friday, June 6, […]
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