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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.

TurnAbout RanchTurn-About Ranch
As a parent you are often challenged by outside influences that threaten your child's emotional and behavioral development. Imagine a place where old-time values such as honesty, respect, teamwork, and accountability are the standard. Turn-About Ranch is such a place. Teens thrive in the unique environment of this spirited working cow-and-horse ranch. As they get back to basics, they are challenged to examine their values and recognize how their poor choices have impacted their lives.

Turn-About Ranch features a hard-hitting, high-impact residential program works wonders with defiant teens where the experience of the ranch setting has a powerful real-world impact.

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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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