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Think your kid hasn't used drugs? Think again
Monday, November 15, 2010Think your child would never experiment with drugs? You're not alone. Seventy per cent of Canadian parents with children aged 12 to 17 say they believe their child has never tried drugs, according to a new survey released Monday by the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse. Even more parents, or about 80 per cent, say they would recognize drug use in a person close to them. Yet, a study published last year from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health suggests that about one-third of 15 -to 17-...
Full ArticleParents often naive about teen drug abuse, study finds
Monday, November 15, 2010OTTAWA—Most parents believe their teens are staying away from illegal drugs and prescription painkillers, a new survey suggests, but that might not reflect what’s actually going on. The Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse commissioned the survey, which discovered 70 per cent of the parents polled who have children between 12 and 17 don’t think their kids have experimented with drugs. Eighty per cent of parents and non-parents said they’re confident they’d recognize...
Full ArticleStudy: Many Youth Offenders Have History of Traumatic Brain Injury
Thursday, November 11, 2010A survey of 197 youth offenders in England — boys aged 11 to 19 who have been incarcerated — found that they are three times more likely to have had a traumatic brain injury (TBI) than their non-offending counterparts. About half of the 197 youths reported a brain injury, in keeping with another English survey of adult prisoners that found a rate of TBI of 60%. Traumatic brain injury has long been associated with adult prisoners: the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC...
Full ArticleChildhood Abuse Linked to Diabetes Risk in Adult Women
Wednesday, November 10, 2010(HealthDay News) -- Women who were victims of childhood abuse may be at increased risk of developing diabetes in adulthood, new findings suggest. Researchers surveyed 67,853 U.S. nurses and found that 54 percent reported physical abuse and 34 percent reported sexual abuse before age 18. Moderate and severe physical and sexual abuse were associated with a 26 percent to 69 percent increased risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood. "Much, although not all, of this association is explained by the gre...
Full ArticleHalf of Teens Treated for Depression Will Relapse: Study
Monday, November 1, 2010(HealthDay News) - Although almost all teens who were treated for major depression initially recovered, about half ended up suffering a relapse within five years, a new study found. And those recurrences were more likely to strike girls than boys, the researchers found. "We've known for a long time that people are going to revert back to depression - that 50 per cent would relapse even though they had recovered. I don't think that surprised many people," said Keith Young, vice chair for resear...
Full ArticleDepression Returns in Half of Treated Teens
Monday, November 1, 2010Adolescence can be a difficult time, so it's no wonder that an estimated 5% of US teens are affected by depression. And to make a difficult situation even worse, researchers now report that as many as half of even properly treated teens experience recurrent bouts of depression. John Curry, a psychiatry professor at Duke University Medical School, found that adolescents treated with fluoxetine (Prozac) alone, cognitive behavior therapy alone, or a combination of the two experienced the same re...
Full Article'Clumsy' syndrome kids often troubled
Friday, October 29, 2010They’re the clumsy children who can’t sit still in class and who trip when they’re walking across a room. Even doing up a button and opening a milk carton can be difficult for them. Not only do they struggle in school, but their clumsiness can set them up as primary targets for being bullied and ridiculed. Their condition — developmental co-ordination disorder – affects more than 5 per cent of children yet it continues to be the most misunderstood and misdiagnosed...
Full ArticleFussy newborns may have more troubles later on
Friday, October 29, 2010At just 1 month old, infants show signs of temperament troubles that can turn into mood and behavior problems later in life, a new study suggests. Infants that are fussy when they're three to four weeks old are more likely to develop childhood mental health problems including anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and behavior problems, the researchers say. "It turns out, you can predict very well from infant fussiness to later problems," said study researcher Beth Troutman, ...
Full ArticleIllegal cigarettes lure high schoolers
Tuesday, October 26, 2010Contraband cigarettes, often sold in baggies and out of vans, account for 43 per cent of what daily smokers in high school are using, according to a new study by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. This illegal cigarette market is sabotaging traditional tobacco control policies, such as taxation and age restrictions. “Teenagers are more price sensitive,” said Davis Ip, a researcher for the study, which appears online in the journal Tobacco Control. “Since contraband is...
Full ArticleChild neglect most common form of abuse: study
Tuesday, October 26, 2010MONTREAL - Neglect is the most common form of child mistreatment in Canada and the physical damage can be even more devastating than sexual abuse, a study has found. The government-funded study, released Monday at a youth-protection conference, found that neglect made up 34% of all youth-protection investigations that are found to have merit. Neglected children were more likely to require medical treatment than children who had suffered physical, sexual or emotional abuse, says the study spons...
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