Today CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) released Adolescent substance use: America´s #1 public health problem that declared teen smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs a public health problem of epidemic proportion and the primary origin of the complex brain disease of addiction.
The report examines how American culture increases the risk that teens will use addictive substances and how the messages sent by adults, and glamorized by the tobacco and alcohol industries and the media, normalize substance use and undermine the health and futures of teens.
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