The Springfield city council unanimously passed ordinances for T21. It received broad support from Springfield’s robust medical community at previous meetings where doctors spoke about how young people’s brains were …
Vaping Surges…Largest Year-to-Year Increase Ever Recorded
JUNE 27, 2019 BY KATHLEEN NELSON-SIMLEY Since 1975, the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study of substance use among U.S. adolescents has been conducted annually by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and …
IMPORTANCE OF SMOKING CESSATION TO SUBSTANCE USE TREATMENT
By Laura Morrison-Roets, EdD, PhD, CTRS/L, LADC, CRAADC/Supv., CM III The hazards of tobacco use in all forms has been widely discussed for years. However, an issue seldom addressed in …
Where are Youth Getting Access?
The Missouri Student Survey is conducted during even years with statewide school districts participating voluntarily. The survey poses questions related to demographics, substances, bullying, suicidal ideation, and additional topics. In …
Dangers of a carefree summer
Think today is just another summer day? It’s not for the estimated 11,000 youth who will take their first drink of alcohol or the 4,500 who will smoke a cigarette …
‘Juuling’: The most widespread phenomenon you’ve never heard of
A new front has opened in the never-ending game of cat and mouse between teenagers and adults — over Juuling, a discreet form of vaping that is the most widespread …