5 Mistakes Parents Make With Teens

SOURCES:

Richard M. Lerner, PhD, director of the Institute for Applied Research in Youth Development, Tufts University, Medford, Mass.

Robert Evans, EdD, executive director, The Human Relations Service, Wellesley, Mass.

Amelia M. Arria, PhD, director, Center on Young Adult Health and Development, University of Maryland School of Public Health.

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Office of National Drug Control Policy, Executive Office of the President, “Prescription for Danger: A Report on the Troubling Trend of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Among the Nation’s Teens.”

The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, PATS TEENS 2008 REPORT.

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