Science news articles about 'drug use in teens'

An Alberta woman says the province gave her the perfect Mother's Day gift: drug treatment for her son's rare muscle disorder.

... to set no-use rules for alcohol and drugs, or assuming teens will be fine without guidance, is to risk ... insists that she's never experimented with alcohol or drugs. The statistics tell me that I'll ...

... our first investigation of the spread of illegal drug use in social networks," said Mednick. "We ... network effect that they discovered was that teens who are at the center of the network are at greater ...

... to binaural music replicates the effects of illicit drugs. They call the process i-doping. But according to experts ...

... deviant peers and become heavy drug users as teens, according to a new study published in the journal ... Center, says aggressive children are more inclined to misuse drugs than their non aggressive counterparts and this risk increases ...

... or 30s. More than 4,300 U.S. teens try an illicit drug for the first time each ... 's findings provide more clues to the unique effects of drug use at this time of life, and the potential impacts on brain ... , we desperately need to better understand how drug exposure during teen years influences brain ...

Controlled drug prescriptions for teens have nearly doubled in the past 14 years.

It's well-known that teens experiment with alcohol and marijuana, but recently, children and teens have turned their attention to other drugs.