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...Gambling Research Clinic, called out government and private industry for the unprecedented marketing of gambling to kids--from using cartoon characters on state lottery scratchers to mainstream retailers' selling World Poker Tour chocolates. He cited a number of studies showing a link, although not necessarily a causal relationship, between teen gambling and higher rates of drinking, drugs and suicide. He estimated that there are 5 million youths in the U.S. and Canada who have some kind of gambling problem. Parents are a big part of that problem, he said. "Just as you wouldn't sit down and have a beer...
Derevensky concedes that the research on adolescent and teen problem gamblers is still limited, largely because most serious addictions only begin to show once kids are living on their own or in college. The key to preventing problems, he says, is reaching kids early, not with a message of abstinence but of moderation and awareness of the risks. The challenge is to find effective ways of teaching those lessons. Last year, the Council on Compulsive Gambling of New Jersey, located in the home state of casino-rich Atlantic City, developed what executive director Ed Looney says is the country...
...Over the last three years, I interviewed 700 families across America, asking them what they'd had to deal with. Extremely few mentioned the kinds of problems diagnosed by Supermom lit. Rather, they had old-fashioned problems like infidelity, mental illness, teen drug use, poverty, racial prejudice, custody battles, emotional frigidity and marital boredom. Every family in America has had challenges to struggle through. But the kinds of problems people actually deal with are covered by few people besides Oprah and Dr. Phil - which helped explain why they're the cultural phenomena they...
...homecoming king while his sister started freebasing at age 11? Psychology 1603, “Adolescent Behavior,” a survey of adolescent development from the ideal to the freaky just might have the answer. Professor Debbie Sorenson, a Lowell House residential tutor, seems barely older than a teen herself, and her lectures are light-hearted and enjoyable, especially since she incorporates a course-related clip from favorite teeny-bopper flicks into most. Even if she doesn't inspire you, guest speakers and panels (the hidden jewels of Psych 1603) spice up lecture, despite the fact that they discuss...
...question of 'why' loomed largely among the hundreds of students who fled the shooting yesterday. But Gill's blog paints a chilling portrait of a violent young man, harkening images of the teen killers who gunned down their 12 classmates and wounded 27 others and killing themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado...