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Talking With Your Doctor
Find out the facts about impairment from drug abuse and how it can affect a wide range of abilities.
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Scientists Answer Teen Questions About Drug Abuse
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Teens and Decision Making: What Brain Science Reveals
Recent research shows that emotions have an edge over logic in teen decision making.
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Peer Pressure: Its Influence on Teens and Decision Making
Out of It
Find out the facts about impairment from drug abuse and how it can affect a wide range of abilities.
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The Effects of Marijuana on the Brain
The Lowdown on Hydrocodone
The active ingredient in many prescription pain relievers is a powerful drug—and dangerous when not used as prescribed.
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Dangerous Liaisons: Mixing Hydrocodone with Alcohol and Other Drugs
Stress and Drug Abuse
Find out facts about how the body responds to stress, and how stress puts people at risk for drug abuse or relapse to drug addiction.
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- The Brain Connection Between Stress and Drug Abuse
- Scientists Find a Connection Between 9/11 and Substance Abuse
How Drug Abuse Puts Your Body at Risk
Get the facts on how drug abuse and addiction can affect almost every system in your body.
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The Deadly Effects of Tobacco Addiction
Find out facts about the chemicals in tobacco that make it addictive, as well as the deadly effects of smoking and of secondhand smoke.
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The Science of Addiction: What Brain Research Tells Us About Addiction
Find out facts about why scientists consider drug addiction a chronic disease, and the roles that one's environment and genetics also play.
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A Day in the Life of a Teen: Decisions at Every Turn
Find out the facts and dangers of drug abuse and what you can do—and say—to protect yourself and navigate through social situations.
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- Lesson 1 and Reproducible: What Do You Know About Drug Abuse in Social Settings?
- Lesson 2 and Reproducible: Understanding Drug-Abuse Statistics
Poison Vapors: The Truth About Inhalants
Inhalants can cause harm to the whole body, including long-lasting damage to the brain, physical disabilities, and even death.
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- Lesson 1 and Reproducible: What Do You Know About Inhalants and Their Dangers?
- Lesson 2 and Reproducible: Learning How Inhalants Become Drugs of Addiction
Prescription Drugs: Their Use and Abuse
A prescription label is not just a bunch of words. It's a doctor's instructions to a patient: Only this person can take this medication, in this amount, for this length of time. When the medication is taken on purpose for any other reason, that is called abuse.
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- Lesson 1 and Reproducible: What Do You Know About the Dangers of Prescription Drug Abuse?
- Lesson 2 and Reproducible: Understanding Social Neuroscience
Methamphetamine: Toxic. Addictive. Devastating. Get the Facts!
Also known as "meth" or "ice," this highly addictive and brain-altering drug is a serious threat on individuals, families, and communities.
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- Lesson 1 and Reproducible: What Do You Know About the Dangers of Methamphetamine?
- Lesson 2 and Reproducible: What Methamphetamine Does to Your Brain
Drug Addiction Is a Disease: Why the Teen Brain Is Vulnerable
Today, as a result of research studies, clinical trials, and new ways to study the brain, scientists know that drug addiction is a disease—and that teen brains are more susceptible than adults' to the effects of drugs.
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- Lesson 1: How Much Do You Know About Drug Addiction?
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- Lesson 2: Drug Abuse Affects Decision Making
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Teens, Drug Abuse, and AIDS: The Deadly Connection
According to a 2004 report from NIDA, behavior associated with drug abuse is now the single largest factor in the spread of HIV infection in the United States. The teen health threat of drug addiction helps set the stage for the disease of AIDS.
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- Lesson 1: What Do You Know About Teens, Drugs, and Disease?
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- Lesson 2: The Rising HIV Rates Among Girls and Women
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Abuse of Inhalants and Prescription Drugs: Real Dangers for Teens
The latest studies on teen drug use show good news and bad news. The good news is that overall drug abuse among teens is down. The bad news is that three very dangerous substances show an increase in abuse: inhalants and the prescription drugs OxyContin® and Vicodin®.
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- Lesson 1: What Do You Know About Teen Drug Trends?
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- Lesson 2: How Inhalant Abuse Damages the Brain
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Two Teen Health Dangers: Obesity and Drug Addiction
Researchers have discovered an amazing connection between how the brain is involved in obesity and drug addiction.
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- Lesson 1: Obesity and Drug Addiction: What Do You Know?
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- Lesson 2: Dangerous Cravings and the Brain
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Ecstasy: Key Info
Inhalants: Stats, Signs, and More Info
Steroids and Heroin Review and Resources
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