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08-23 Young Americans are Using More Drugs than Ever Before: Use of Marijuana and Hallucinogens Among Under-30s Hit Record Levels in 2021, NIH report reveals

08-23 Young Americans are Using More Drugs than Ever Before: Use of Marijuana and Hallucinogens Among Under-30s Hit Record Levels in 2021, NIH report reveals

August 23, 2022 lynnswarriors

The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) annual survey found that four in ten under-30s used cannabis last year, up a quarter from a decade ago. The numbers taking hallucinogens also hit an all-time high at one in 12, double the level from five years ago.

Alcohol remained the most popular substance among young people with eight in ten drinking it, but binge-drinking rebounded to pre-pandemic levels at three in ten while high-intensity drinking — having more than 10 alcoholic beverages a night — ratcheted up to a record 13 percent.

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08-21 Sound the Alarm. Has Your Child Been Exploited on a Pornography Platform? There is Help.

08-21 Sound the Alarm. Has Your Child Been Exploited on a Pornography Platform? There is Help.

August 21, 2022 lynnswarriors

Help. Until now, there has been no voice in the courts and legislatures advocating for human dignity and against all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation. In the vacuum of a national legal strategy on these issues, pro-sexual exploitation lobbyists have stepped in to promote radical and damaging legislation and legal precedents promoting pornography, prostitution, sexually grooming children for abuse, increasing sex trafficking, and more

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Disclaimer: The Law Center cannot guarantee legal representation to every injured person with a potential legal claim and the submission of this questionnaire does not create an attorney-client relationship. Except in situations directly related to litigation the Law Center generally cannot assist with record expungement requests.

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08-19 Lack of Transparency, Dismissive Teachers the ‘Breaking Point’ for Parents, School Choice Advocates Say

08-19 Lack of Transparency, Dismissive Teachers the ‘Breaking Point’ for Parents, School Choice Advocates Say

August 19, 2022 lynnswarriors

WASHINGTON — The school choice movement is growing rapidly amid ongoing discontent from parents who find themselves at odds with public school officials over a lack of transparency and other issues, school choice advocates say.

The conservative think tank Heritage Foundation hosted a panel discussion at its headquarters on Monday, featuring co-founder of Moms for Liberty Tiffany Justice, longtime school choice advocate Corey DeAngelis and Heritage President Kevin Roberts.

The panelists spoke of empowering parents in education amid recent changes in the political landscape, accentuated by COVID-19 pandemic policies, the antics of prominent teacher’s unions and ideologically-motivated teachers.

Justice told The Christian Post that she believes many parents have recently developed a sense that school boards are not respecting their rights as parents, especially when they express concerns with teachers and administrators.

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08-18 Sound the Alarm! America’s $30B Legalized Cannabis Industry is Causing an ‘Explosion’ of Teen Users

08-18 Sound the Alarm! America’s $30B Legalized Cannabis Industry is Causing an ‘Explosion’ of Teen Users

August 18, 2022 lynnswarriors

America’s $30bn legalized cannabis industry is causing an ‘explosion’ of teen users: Candy-themed products sold with minimal oversight increase risk of addiction and psychosis among kids, experts warn

  • Evidence from states that legalized cannabis this past decade shows a worrying rise in under-aged users
  • One study exposed a ‘potential explosion’ in adolescent use, another saw the number of cannabis-vaping teens triple over two years
  • Parents told DailyMail.com of their ‘straight-A student’ kids failing at school after experimenting with pot 
  • Super-strong cannabis in vapes, dabs, lollipops and sodas are marketed at youngsters, critics say
  • States need to regulate the $30billion trade to protect addiction-prone youth, say researchers
  • Advocates say cannabis can help sufferers of chronic pain and trauma and can net millions for state coffers
  • Voters in Arkansas, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, and Oklahoma, will decide on their state cannabis rules in November 
  • Has cannabis affected your family? Write to [email protected] 

A DailyMail.com analysis of research focusing on California, Massachusetts, Nevada, and other states that have legalized recreational pot shows experts warning of a ‘potential explosion’ of under-aged use — and more youngsters using it than in states where it’s illegal.

They are alarmed by the weak oversight of a $30billion business and warn of a free-for-all market in which super-strength cannabis products are sold in cartoon-covered packaging that attracts youngsters, even as tobacco and alcohol firms are barred from targeting youths.

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08-17 Rates of depression among college students jumped 135% from 2013 to 2021 – with anxiety increasing 110%, study finds

08-17 Rates of depression among college students jumped 135% from 2013 to 2021 – with anxiety increasing 110%, study finds

August 17, 2022 lynnswarriors

Rates of depression among college students jumped 135% from 2013 to 2021 – with anxiety increasing 110%, study finds

  • The number of college students experiencing anxiety or depression more than doubled from 2013 to 2021, a new study finds
  • Rates of depression among college students increased 135% while anxiety rates surged 110% over that period 
  • While COVID-19 played a role in the increase, figures had been trending upwards for years before the pandemic
  • Meanwhile, America is suffering from a massive shortage of therapists, with only 500,000 licensed around the country                  

The number of college students experiencing depression or anxiety has more than doubled over the last eight years, a new study finds.

Researchers at Boston University (BU) found that the number of students suffering from depression jumped 135 percent from 2013 to 2021. This came alongside a 110 percent increase in anxiety cases across the same time period.

While lockdowns, school closures and disruptions to everyday life caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are partly to blame for rises in recent years, experts warn the issues run much deeper. They also not that the years a person is in college are also coincidentally the years where a person is most likely to develop life-lasting mental health problems.

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08-16 FBI Announces “Operation Cross Country Xll Located 84 Kids, Victims of Sex Trafficking

08-16 FBI Announces “Operation Cross Country Xll Located 84 Kids, Victims of Sex Trafficking

August 16, 2022 lynnswarriors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, August 15, 2022

FBI Announces Results of Nationwide Sex Trafficking Operation

Operation Cross Country XII Leads to Identification/Location of Adolescent Victims

The FBI, working with its state and local partners during two weeks in August, identified and located 84 minor victims of child sex trafficking and child sexual exploitation offenses and located 37 actively missing children during a nationwide enforcement campaign, dubbed “Operation Cross Country.”

“The Justice Department is committed to doing everything in our power to combat the insidious crimes of human trafficking that devastate survivors and their families,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “I am grateful to the dedicated professionals of the FBI and our law enforcement partners across the country for their tireless work to rescue trafficking survivors, including exploited children, to investigate and prosecute the perpetrators of trafficking crimes, and to provide the services and support that survivors need and deserve.”

The FBI-led nationwide initiative focused on identifying and locating victims of sex trafficking and investigating and arresting individuals and criminal enterprises involved in both child sex and human trafficking.

“Human trafficking is among the most heinous crimes the FBI encounters,” said FBI Director Christopher Wray. “Unfortunately, such crimes—against both adults and children—are far more common than most people realize. As we did in this operation, the FBI and our partners will continue to find and arrest traffickers, identify and help victims, and raise awareness of the exploitation our most vulnerable populations.”

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08-15 CPS Worker in Texas Tells 14-Year-Old-Girl to Become Prostitute If She Wants to Eat

08-15 CPS Worker in Texas Tells 14-Year-Old-Girl to Become Prostitute If She Wants to Eat

August 15, 2022 lynnswarriors

Shocking moment Texas CPS worker tells 14-year-old girl to become a PROSTITUTE so she can afford food: Agency fires employee and apologizes after video surfaces

  • In an undated video, a Texas Child Protective Services worker tells a 14-year-old girl that she should become a prostitute
  • The worker was responding to the child asking for food
  • As a result of the video, the CPS worker has been fired 
  • The child’s mother Keisha Bazley said: ‘If I was to do something like this to my child. I would be called a horrible parent. I would lose my kids.’ 

The teen’s mother Keisha Bazley told Fox26: ‘My daughter told me that the worker had been telling her she should do these things, so she said she decided to video her.’

Bazley told the station that she has nine children. When she began having problems with her 14-year-old daughter, she reached out to CPS for help.

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08-14 Why Do So Many Kids Have Social Anxiety? Let’s Explore

08-14 Why Do So Many Kids Have Social Anxiety? Let’s Explore

August 14, 2022 lynnswarriors

It’s common for children and teenagers to feel anxious about what other people think of them. Some kids feel so anxious that they develop something called social anxiety disorder. This is when you worry so much about what others think about you that you stop doing things you need (and want) to do for fear of embarrassing yourself.

Social anxiety in kids starts between the ages of 8 and 15. They can usually hide their feelings in the beginning, and parents and teachers may not notice that anything is wrong.

Social anxiety means that even small things — like answering a question in class or eating with friends in the cafeteria — can feel very scary. That’s because kids worry that they might accidentally do something embarrassing or offensive, and it will change what people think about them.

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