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Parents and Youth

Peer To Peer, UNODC

For some decades now students have been given lessons about drugs in school in the belief that education about drugs can change their behaviour. Some educators, however, question the goal of behaviour change and propose a more education-oriented approach to drug prevention in schools.
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Family Skills, UNODC

Supportive families are essential to raising socially, mentally and physically healthy and well-adjusted children and preventing later adolescent problems. The challenges faced by many parents around the world as they try to provide for their families include balancing family and work life, juggling financial commitments, ensuring adequate support and social contacts and finding time for the family to be together.
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Nida Notes

Drug-addicted patients who are trying to remain off drugs can often resist the cravings brought on by seeing reminders of their former drug life, NIDA-funded researcher Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek of Rockefeller University in New York City has noted.
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Marijuana Smokers Who Start Early Are at Greatest Risk

A new study found that young adults who started using the drug regularly in their early teens performed significantly worse on cognitive tests assessing brain function than did subjects who were at least 16 when they started smoking.
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Heavy Drinking May Hurt Teen Brain

Severe alcohol abuse in teens may damage neural development in the part of the brain that deals with social skills and judgment - SOCATO (the Platris Foundation).
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