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(WMUR, May 11) New Hampshire students gave their ideas for solutions to the opioid epidemic facing their local communities during a recent televised special.

Few drug treatment centers offer teen-focused groups or programs, leaving the young people to go to self-help meetings with mostly adults.

(Live Science, May 4)  Researchers looked at ER visits from 13 to 21-year-olds at Children’s Hospital Colorado (or one of its urgent-care centers) between January 2005 and June 2015. 

Pregnant teens smoke weed twice as much as non pregnant teens, according to a survey.

(Times-News, April 6) North Carolina Principal Kent Parent challenged his students at Balfour Education Center to stop using drugs for one week.

Prom night took a sharp turn for the worse for a group of Massachusetts teens who got sick after eating marijuana brownies.

Could there be a good side to constant smart phone use? Some experts think maybe. 

If you start smoking pot as a teenager, you might have to deal with a lot of health issues when you get older and probably for the rest of your life.

Two teenagers were treated by paramedics after ingesting marijuana-laced gummy candies at their Coconut Creek school.

The star battled very publicly with drug and alcohol issues and in 2013 went to rehab, and emerged sober.