Urban Outfitters pulls marijuana cookbook from Mich. store

BY CECILIA OLECK Detroit Free Press

TROY, Mich. – Looking to add Trippy Krispy Treats to your holiday hors d’oeuvres list?
Until this week, you could find a recipe for the marijuana-laced sweets in a cookbook sold at the newly opened Urban […]

What teens know — that parents don’t

By Stephanie Dunnewind Seattle Times staff reporter

Parents really aren’t as dumb as many teens think, but it’s true adults may not realize how the adolescent years have changed since they were young.
So we checked books, Web sites and experts for […]

Parenting For Prevention

This page aims to help parents to help their children to remain drug-free – to say ‘no’ to drugs.
Research has shown that about 50% of young people have tried illegal drugs – but, less than 20% go on to use […]

Parenting with Attitude

An article by Peter Stoker for Bella Magazine – August 2nd, 2009

Learning the symptoms of drug use is all very well, but let’s say you were instead concerned about promiscuity. Would it be OK to wait for a sure fire […]

Secondhand Smoke Related to Year-Round Asthma Among Kids

Children with asthma who have at least one parent who smokes are twice as likely to have asthma symptoms all year long compared with children of non-smokers, according to researchers from the University of Michigan (U-M) Health System.The involved in-depth […]

Mothers Against Methamphetamine

An Alabama doctor who lost a brother to methamphetamine addiction has formed a support group called “After he died, I started looking into it as a physician, as a scientist”, said Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician in Albertville. “What is […]

Parent Resources to Prevent Summertime Teen Marijuana Use

According to a new report, more teens first try marijuana in June and July than any other months of the year. To help parents prevent their teen from using marijuana this summer, the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s (ONDCP) […]

The effect of parental substance abuse on young people

There is growing policy and practice interest in the effect of parental substance misuse – both drugs and alcohol – on children. Despite this, young people are often neglected in both policy discussion and service provision. This qualitative study was […]

Cannabis ‘Candy’ would confuse Children

COLUMBUS – Since scientific literature shows the use of marijuana to be a major risk factor in the development of addiction and drug use among school children, law enforcement officials are concerned over a new marketing ploy.

“They package this stuff […]

Child of 11 on Heroin

50 primary pupils ‘are heroin addicts’

JONATHAN LESSWARE AND LAURA ROBERTS

Key points

50 primary school pupils using heroin in Glasgow, claims SNP politician

Claim follows collapse of 11-year-old girl in Pollok

Scale of teenage heroin use in Scotland remains undetermined

Key quote“You can get drugs […]

(Compressed Air) DUST OFF – WARNING

First I’m going to tell you a little about me and my family. My name is Jeff. I am a Police Officer for a city in the USA which is known nationwide for its crime rate. We have a lot […]

Concerns have been expressed over figures suggesting that injecting drug users in Dumfries and Galloway start their habit as young as 13

The Scottish Drug Misuse Database statistics said the majority of drug users questioned in the region had started injecting under the age of 20.
The figures – for individuals who had injected in the past month – cover the year up […]

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