Time teens spend with dates linked to drug use
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Girls with boyfriends two or more years older are more than twice as likely to drink, according to a new national survey.
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Britain's teenagers are among the heaviest drinkers and drug-users in Europe, research has found.
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American teen-agers are waiting longer to engage in sexual intercourse and an overwhelming majority of those who are sexually active report using contraception
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AMSTERDAM - Youths who frequently use cannabis before the age of 16 face a much greater risk of psychotic symptoms later in life than those who use the drug at a later age, Dutch research indicated Wednesday.
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Nearly a quarter of teens say it would be "very easy" or "somewhat easy" to gain access to methamphetamine, a survey released Tuesday shows.
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Teenagers and young adults who gamble are more likely to have substance use disorders and psychiatric problems, according to researchers from Yale University.
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The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is rising faster than that of boys, and on average the girls take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical Association said Thursday in reporting the findings of two surveys.
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This might help explain why teenagers act like, well, teenagers.
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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:    ------      Early Puberty Increases Risk of Substance Abuse      Youngsters who begin puberty at an early age are more likely to experiment with and abuse alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana than kids who start puberty at a later age, says a Australian study in the September issue of the journal Pediatrics.      The study found that early puberty was more important than school grade or age in influencing this kind of behavior...
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(HealthDay News) -- Addiction to drugs or alcohol can lead to a variety of behavioral and physical changes in teenagers.
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Fewer U.S. teens are using  marijuana, Ecstasy or LSD but more are bingeing on alcohol and  abusing prescription drugs, according to an annual government  survey released on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - Getting teenagers more active   in school life may lower the odds that they will smoke, drink,   use drugs or have sex, a new study suggests.
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High school students in New Jersey were smoking, drinking, doing drugs and having sex less in 2005 than high school students in 2001, according to a survey released Tuesday.
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By Garofalo, Robert Herrick, Amy; Mustanski, Brian S; Donenberg, Geri Rachel  Objectives. We examined the prevalence of Internet use for meeting sexual partners (Internet partners) and HIV risk behaviors associated with this use among young men who have sex with men (aged 16-24 years).
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Hispanic teenagers used illegal drugs at greater rates than white and black teenagers, according to a report released Monday by a White House drug control policy office.
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The percentage of teenage girls who drink alcoholic beverages is increasing more rapidly than that of boys, and girls on average take their first drink at age 13, the American Medical
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Younger teens are staying away from sex more and when they do have sex, they are more likely to use contraception, U.S. government researchers reported Friday.