March 2025

We often think of burnout as a condition affecting overworked adults, but teenage burnout is a very real – and sometimes very serious – problem.  Burnout is a state of physical, mental, and/or emotional exhaustion caused by an ongoing stressful situation. For teens, this can be an overloaded schedule, high expectations, or overwhelming social pressure. […]

If you want to understand teen drug use, you need to understand why teens use drugs in the first place.  The teen years can be a tumultuous time. While not all teens will use drugs to cope, statistics show that 21.3% of 8th graders have tried illicit drugs at least once, and that number jumps