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North Star CenterNorthStar Center
NorthStar is an aftercare program for young adults who have completed primary substance abuse treatment and are ready to move forward in their sobriety. At NorthStar, recovery is tailored for young adults in sobriety to include programming in recovery, responsibility, and recreation. This helps young adults learn to manage not only sobriety and irresponsible behavior but also the boredom and restlessness that young adults face is sobriety.

NorthStar's mission is to facilitate recovery from substance abuse/dependence and self-defeating behaviors so that young adults can achieve their educational and life goals.

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Sage WalkSage Walk
Sage Walk’s wilderness program offers a powerful and significant approach to help your teen overcome emotional and behavioral problems. Our mission is to resolve family conflict in order to reunite families that have been torn apart by the behavioral problems of a troubled child. Sage Walk was chosen as the wilderness program for ABC's Brat Camp in part to their effective drug and alcohol education component to help teens experimenting with substances.

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Government Wants More Studies on Effect of Cell Phone Exposure

The U.S. National Research Council is recommending more study on the effects of cell phone use on the health of young people and pregnant women.

Most research so far has looked at only short-term effects of cell phone use; however, some studies have linked using the phones to developing brain tumors.

Some of the Council's scientists believe that children and teens may be more susceptible to exposure to radio frequency energies because they are still developing, and because they begin using the phones at young ages. In addition, smaller people and children take in more RF energy than average adults.

The Council, which makes recommendations to Congress and the federal government on matters of science, asked for more research after compiling a report from a meeting of experts in the field.

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