Parents Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse: An Interview With Gina Hijjawi

Parents Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse: An Interview with Gina Hijjawi – In this interview, Gina Hijjawi, Ph.D. shares with us key steps parents can take to prevent their teens from abusing prescription drugs. In addition to shari…

How to influence your teen, part 1

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Motivational interviewing has proven effective in motivating behavior change in teens in difficult arenas, like drug and alcohol abuse, disordered eating, and risky sexual behavior. Dahl's advice was to learn to use it as a parent for the more mundane …
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Drug agency head skeptical of compulsory tests in Russian schools

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The head of Russian Federal Drug Enforcement Agency has played down earlier support of obligatory and universal drug tests for schoolchildren, saying the problem, however acute, must be resolved primarily by parents and within the family. “I am …
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Close the gender gap for those working with children JIM SWEENEY

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The first was sight of an interview by John Carnochan, the outgoing director of the Violence Reduction Unit, who was bemoaning the lack of male role models for our teenage boys and the absent father syndrome which is so prevalent in our society.
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