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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.

Girls Closing Gender Gap for Drinking, Drugging, Smoking

Girls are catching up to boys in negative ways, such as drinking and drugging too much and getting into car accidents, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Teenage girls are now drinking, smoking, and using drugs at a level equal to or above the level of teenage boys, and they are slowly closing the gap in the number of car accidents. In addition, more girls are entering the juvenile justice system than ever. This is according to data from the National Center on Additions and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, and a study of emergency room physicians by the University of California. The statistics show that drug use among girls is actually increasing in an era when overall teenage drug use is slightly declining.

Many experts believe the same feminist movement that empowers girls to go to college and pursue non-traditional careers is also "empowering" them to smoke, drink, and go clubbing.

"When you take off the shackles, you release all kinds of energy - negative and positive," said James Garbarino, a psychology professor at Loyola University in Chicago. "By letting girls loose to experience America more fully, it's not surprising that they would absorb some of its toxic environment."

Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a professor of public health at Harvard University, said the explanation for the girls' bad behavior is "in part a direct response to the advances that we're making as a society around gender equality. We really have to ask the question, 'Why wouldn't you expect girls to behave like boys?' Girls and women are closing other gaps."

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