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Do Celebrity Role Models Promote Teen Substance Abuse?

Although they would never admit it, teenagers are easily influenced by their friends and role models. This influence can be positive – for example, when teens compete for good grades or witness others being of service to people in need – or it can be negative. Do your child’s celebrity role models send a positive [...]

Will ASAM’s New Definition of Addiction Change the Course of Treatment?

By Meghan Vivo After four years of research and consultations with 80 addiction experts, clinicians and scientists, the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s long-awaited definition of addiction has arrived. But is it a change in the right direction? The new definition has garnered the support of many experts in the field as well as its [...]