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What Teens Learn from Vaping

Make no mistake, vaping behavior is a gateway to harder drug use. Getting hooked on nicotine through smoking is already the top addiction. Now, vapor delivers nicotine to the brain much more effectively than smoke. Higher blood concentrations of nicotine occur in “vapers” versus smokers, generally. But set aside physical addiction, the chemical and structural…

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Substance Abuse in the Workplace

Substance abuse in the workplace presents a major problem for employers, coworkers, workplace safety and family members at home. Of course, these problems also affect the person who abuses the substances. Damages from workplace substance abuse costs the U.S. over $100 billion each year. But what do you do, if someone you care about abuses…

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Five reasons parents put their adult kids in rehab

IT’S LIFE OR DEATH: Drugs, alcohol and depression are now the leading causes of death in young people between the ages of 18 and 30, recently surpassing motor vehicle accidents. The numbers are staggering. Ask practically anyone and they know a heartbreaking story of a friend or loved one who has died from an alcohol…