What are the predictors of substance use among kids in early adolescence? We have a study for that!
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I expected Sandwich to be great because I love everything Catherine Newman writes, but it was a balm for a wound I did not realize I was nursing.
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The confluence of guns and alcohol consumption are far more deadly than the sum of their individual statistical parts.
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I was so looking forward to my birthday this year. I’d cleared almost an entire week of obligations and planned to give myself the gift of six whole days working in the woods and garden. I’ve been building a new stone wall, cutting and splitting a black cherry tree that came down in a storm, and tending to my vegetable gardens.
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There’s a reason we Laheys don’t celebrate Mother’s Day (or Father’s Day or Valentines Day)…
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I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: I have the coolest work gig in the world. My job is to get curious about something, spend a couple of years researching it in my dark hermit hidey-hole office, then translate all the technical, jargon-tastic, super nerdy research into something other people might want to read or listen to.
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I just returned from a week of speaking engagements in California, and I had the rare opportunity to see what it looks like when a community recognizes it has a substance use problem and goes all in on evidence-based education and harm reduction.
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