Straight Talk for Teens

Depression & Mental Health

Lucy in the Sky with DMT (today’s LSD)

Editor’s Web Note: Just for the record, when the Beatles produced “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (marking their LSD phase), they were all over age 25. Drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll really…

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Poor health and lots of it

Editor’s Web Note: Who needs global warming or nuclear bombs? We can go extinct with Cheetos and Big Gulps. We’re definitely at a precipice. Some experts predict infertility to double in the next seven years — to one in…

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Is boy messed up from drugs or mental illness?

Editor’s Note: Like Gabe says below, some kids can drink like fish with no hangover, others are puking from three beers. By the same token, some kids can smoke pot and be high-functioning between stones, while others are affected mentally…

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“Avatar” blues: Fans long for connection to Nature

Editor’s Web Note: Could humans finally be weary of violence and exploitation? As of today’s date, the sci-fi film “Avatar” holds the spot for the second-highest grossing film ever made. For all the complaints from…

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Adderall and Ritalin abuse: steroids of study

Editor’s Web Note: Adderall and Ritalin have become the steroids of study and today’s column begs the question: What are we doing as a society if the academic expectations are so high that students have to resort to “study…

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Silence can be deadly: tell adult about cutter’s secret

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Daughter’s mental illness more than family can handle

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High-achieving females hide stress even from themselves

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Early intervention for troubled youth hugely successful

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Majority of teens think counseling a good idea

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