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Copper Canyon AcademyCOPPER CANYON ACADMEY is an all girls school in Rimrock, Arizona. COPPER CANYON ACADEMY offers an extremely comprehensive therapeutic program for girls and their families through individual, group, and animal therapy. There are also parent seminars and family workshops. All of the therapists who work with the teenage girls and their families at COPPER CANYON ACADEMY are licensed by the Arizona Board of Behavioral Health Services.


EXCEL ACADEMY
EXCEL ACADEMY has a Junior High School, a College Prep High School, and a College program, enabling us to help preteens, teens, and young adults. EXCEL ACADEMY boasts a compelling history of success with students who have had previous school or therapeutic failures. EXCEL ACADEMY offers an intensely effective milieu without the look and feel of traditional programs and places a heavy emphasis on ensuring that all students feel safe and part of "the family" regardless of past environment, behavior, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or history of abuse or trauma.

Forty-three Percent of College Students Use Hookahs

A new study from the Virginia Commonwealth University found that over 40% of college students use hookahs and mistakenly believe they do not pose a danger to health.

Hookahs are water pipes popular in the Middle East.

Dr. Thomas Eissenberg surveyed 744 students 18 to 21 years old and found that 43% had smoked a hookah in the past year and 20% had smoked hookah in the past month.

Most believe that because hookah smoke passes through a water-filled chamber it is safer than smoking cigarettes. However, the opposite is true: It can take an hour or more to smoke a hookah compared to 10 to 15 minutes for a cigarette. Consequently, hookah smokers inhale one hundred times more smoke.

This study appears in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

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