Helpful Links

• Facts About Underage Drinking Learn about the effects of alcohol on your body, brain, and life. (Link os from Too smart To Start)
  
  
• It's Official: Kerlikowske to Head ONDCP, But Won't Serve in Obama's Cabinet Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske has been officially announced as President Barack Obama's "drug czar" by the White House.
  
  
• Inhalants: Toxic Danger tips to help reduce the prevalence of teen inhalant use.
  
  
• Teen Drinking: The Whole Story This is the advice to adults from a seventeen-year-old girl who has made a decision not to drink alcohol as a minor. 
  
  
• SAFE The SAFE Project is a community-based, family-centered program for youth 12-21 in Suffolk County. This project, sited at Dimock Community Health Center and North Suffolk Mental Health Association, will assess adolescents for treatment using the Global Appraisal of Individual Needs (GAIN), and will utilize the Assertive Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) coupled with Assertive Continuing Care (ACC).  These are all evidence-based interventions with proven effectiveness in building community capacity for family centered treatment.
  
  
• Learning to Cope: Teens and Stress Teens who are not sure how to deal with these pressures may try to cope with stress by taking drugs.
  
  
• Understanding the Impact of Teen Alcohol Use Research from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that there are about 11 million people between the ages of 12 and 20 who drank alcohol in the past month, and about 19 percent of underage drinkers were binge drinkers.
  
  
• Achedemic Success Get the Facts As your teens head back to the classroom, you can arm them with the proper tools and information to stay drug-free.
  
  
• 2008 Olympic Games Offer a 'Teachable Moment' with Teens
  What you don't know can hurt your teen, too!
  
  
• Report Finds Steroids Easy to Access Online
  an Internet spam and criminality watchdog, identified 156 Web sites engaged in the illicit sale of anabolic steroids, making it easy for youth to obtain steroids without a prescription.
  
  
• 40 Percent of Underage Drinkers Received Free Alcohol from Adults A new federal report reveals that more than 40 percent of the nation´s estimated 10.8 million underage drinkers obtained their alcohol from adults of legal drinking age.
  
  
• Study shows that Energy Drink Consumption May Lead to Increased Risky
  Behavior
  Recent research suggests that teens and young adults who consume energy
  drinks may be at greater risk of a number of high-risk behaviors, that
  include alcohol use, other drug problems, risky sex and violence, the
  'New York Times' reported May 26. A March 2008 study in the 'Journal of
  American College Health', for example, linked energy-drink use among
  athletes to a variety of high-risk behaviors.
  
  
• Parent's Guide to the Teen Brain From mood swings to risk taking, “normal teenage behavior” can appear to be anything-but-normal to parents and other bystanders.
  
  
• Data Supports The Need For Intensifing Inderage Drinking Prevention Efforts During Summer Months May 29, 2008 Data released by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)on first- time alchol use.
  
  
• Teen Drivers: Safe to and from Prom…and Beyond Know Teen Drivers' Risks
  
  
• Taste for Quick Boost Tied to Taste for Risk Health researchers have identified a surprising new predictor for risky behavior among teenagers and young adults: the energy drink.
  
  
• Parents: The Anti Drug
  Parenting site launched by the White House of National Drug Control Policy. The goal is to help parents learn better communication skills when talking to their children.
  
  
• Teens, Marijuana, and Depression Research shows that using marijuana can worsen depression and lead to more serious mental health problems.
  
  
• Partnership for Drug Free Families Protect Your Child by having the Drug Discussion at an early age and Partnering With Families in your community.
  
  
• About Teen Depression
  Trends in treating teen depression
  
  
• 12 Step treatment
  Treatment for alcoholism or drug addiction that is based on the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous
  
  
• Adolescent Substance Abuse Knowledge Base
  Factors of Teen Drug Use
  
  
• Search Institute an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities.