Topic: drug abuse

How To Prevent Drug Addiction: A Guide For Parents

Dr. Tali Shenfield | March 26, 2019

While taking drugs has always been risky, the introduction of new, more powerful drugs in recent years has heightened the potential for accidental overdose. As the tragic death of Chloe Kotval (a 14 year old girl from Ottawa, Canada) demonstrated, teenagers- even very young teenagers- are not immune to the perils of today’s “designer drugs.” All it took was one ...

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How to Effectively Talk to Your Teen about Marijuana

Dr. Tali Shenfield | February 11, 2016

Emerging research has demonstrated that even the use of “soft” drugs such as marijuana can have a deleterious effect on developing brains, including those of adolescents. Marijuana use directly alters the parts of the brain responsible for memory, learning, and attention, and may be capable of permanently lowering a person’s IQ and interfering with other aspects of their neurological ...

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