Drug use has dried up in some areas and escalated in others in the pandemic. However, for teens in rural destinations like Vermont and Montana, drug use has managed to climb during the pandemic. For example, according to the Vermont Department of Health, nearly 14 percent of teens in Vermont used illicit drugs in the
A worrisome rise in young individuals experiencing specific mental health issues has been linked to the Covid-19 epidemic, according to Vivek H. Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General. Dr. Whitney Brammer, a clinical psychologist at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, said she was relieved to read the surgeon general's warning to raise awareness of this problem. She
A “quit smoking aid” named JUUL is being used by young people to get their “nic fix” in junior high schools, high schools and colleges around the country, but few parents, counselors and other authority figures understand the phenomenon or just how common it is. JUULing is when you use a vaporizer to inhale nicotine
