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Robert Crown Center for Health Education 
innovative learning through healthier lifetimes

Reality Check

          

Reality Check is a publication of the Robert Crown Center as featured in the Doings Newspaper. They are brief articles about real health issues facing today's kids.        

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Current  Issues:      

Too Much Stress, Boredom, Spending Money:  Add to risk of teen substance abuse                              
Help Kids Cope With Stress As Part of Antidrug Strategy
Salvia Divinorum, A New Danger for Teens

                                           
Future Issues:

TBD
                                                                        
Past Issues:   
To prevent alcoholism:  Delay drinking by our teens
Beware today's new drug pusher:  The Internet
Strange items now part of drug paraphernalia
Oxycontin:  A new, growing substance abuse problem 
Raising Resilient Kids 
Potent drug, 2c-b, threatens club scene  
Bad fad:  Bidis, candy flavored cigarettes, luring young smokers
Tips for teens to keep dating safe
When teens party at home parents may pay
Parents need to set earlier talk on puberty
Prime-time TV loaded with drug use images
Girls catching up to boys in drinking, smoking, drugs
Kids today grow up way to fast!     
Privacy:   An important need of health children     
Healthy kids come from "healthy" communities                           
Epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases raging in US
Key to your child's self-esteem:  hard work, not shallow praise