Tag Archives: Substance Abuse

Last month, we talked to local teens about underage drinking. Now, we’ve turned to local parents to get their points of view. In collaboration with Baltimore’s Child, we also conducted a short online survey and some respondents agreed to be interviewed. Here’s what they had to say. Ninety-three percent of …

Victoria Harvey is a Mid-Atlantic Media intern and a high school senior. As part of our series on teens and partying, we asked her to interview other teenagers about their thoughts on drinking. Most of the students interviewed are seniors or older, and at a point in their lives when …

Drug and alcohol trends among teens and young adults today are both familiar and different. Today’s high schoolers, middle schoolers and college students continue to use mind-altering substances that appealed to previous generations: alcohol, opiates, marijuana and hallucinogens. But now, we can add to the list vaping and prescription drug abuse, among …