The University of New Hampshire’s Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center will receive $2.97 million in grants to conduct a first-of-its-kind randomized study looking at the effectiveness of outdoor behavioral health (OBH), or wilderness therapy, a prescriptive treatment for teens struggling with depression, anxiety and substance use disorders.
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Rutgers Toxicologist Warns About TikTok “Benadryl Challenge” Sending Teens to the ER
Diane Calello, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Center and professor at the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, is available to comment on the “Benadryl Challenge” in which young TikTok users encourage each other to take the allergy drug…
Legal marijuana may be slowing reductions in teen marijuana use, study says
A longitudinal study of more than 230 teens and young adults in Washington state finds that teens may be more likely to use marijuana following legalization – with the proliferation of stores and increasing adult use of the drug — than they otherwise would have been.
Opioid Overdose Risk Factors for Teens, College-Aged Youth Same as Adults
Older teens may have similar risk factors for prescription opioid overdose as adults, a new study suggests.