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Drug Series 411 - Heroin
DrugFreeAZKids.org understands the importance of communicating with your children. We want to share the necessary tools and information with you for starting these important conversations. Talking with your child about the dangers of drugs can reduce the chance of them using by up to 50 percent.
Prevention: What’s love got to do with it?
Prevention: what’s love got to do with it? Plenty! Especially with regard to tweens and teens. Dating and exposure to drugs and alcohol are some of the things parents worry about most during their kids’ adolescence. Let’s look at some of the facts.
Table Talk: Five Fun Activities to LOVE with your Child
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Main Dish: In the spirit of this loving time of the year, have some fun with your child to show your appreciation of them.
Here are five fun activities to LOVE with your child:
1. Bake Valentine’s Day heart-shaped pancakes.
2. Together, think of a list of things that you and your child are thankful for and love to do and write those on a piece of pink paper, cut into a heart.
Marijuana Edibles and Teens
A recent survey of American 8th, 10th and 12th graders shows that marijuana edibles are popular among teen marijuana users, especially in states that have legalized medical marijuana, such as Arizona. The 2014 Monitoring the Future Survey (MTF) measures drug use and attitudes among teens, and found that 40% of 12th graders who had used marijuana in the past year in medical marijuana states have consumed it in an edible form. In non-medical marijuana states, 26% of high school seni
Teens with Prescriptions for Sleep/Anxiety Medications are More Likely to Abuse Rx Drugs
Did you know that giving your teen sleep or anxiety medications to help them sleep or calm them down might be doing them more harm than good? A recent study by the University of Michigan shows that teens who are prescribed medications for sleep or anxiety are up to 12 times more likely to abuse those drugs than teens who are not prescribed medications.
Have you ever said this to your child...?
Subject line: “Have you ever said this to your child?”
“What were you thinking?” Most parents have said this to their tween or teen, or at least thought it, at one time or another. Sometimes our children can surprise us with impulsive or risky behaviors, and we might be thrown off guard by it. “I thought I taught him to know better than that,” we might worry to ourselves.
Helping Teens Shatter the Myths About Drugs
By Brian Marquis, Public Liaison Officer, National Institute on Drug Abuse
Keeping your Children Safe Online
According to the latest Pew Research study, 95% of all teens are now online and 81% are using some form of social media! So if you have a teen, the likelihood of them being online and using social media is pretty high. Do you know what they are up to? With Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and so many others it can be hard to keep up with all of the different social networks.
What direction is your child headed this year?
How did it get to be January 2015 already?! That’s a question that’s fresh on the minds of many people these days. Despite time passing quickly, the arrival of the New Year brings a renewed hope for what is to come over the next year.
411 Drug Series – Cocaine
DrugFreeAZKids.org understands the importance of communicating with your children. We want to share the necessary tools and information with you for starting these important conversations. Being able to address the topic of drug prevention will make your child up to 50 percent less likely to use. This is why we are bringing you a series of regular blog posts, each focusing on a specific drug. It will cover the drug’s common names, impacts and the important details parents should know.
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