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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.

 

Teens Prefer Prescription Drugs Over Marijuana and Alcohol

More teens and college students are abusing prescription drugs and even preferring them to pot and alcohol, according to a report requested by President Bush.

About one teenager in ten uses prescription drugs for non-medical purposes. Some pain-killers such as OxyContin and Vicodin are becoming more popular than alcohol or marijuana, according to the report by the National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.

The number of college students using Vicodin went up 343 percent to about 240,000 students between the years 1993 and 2005. About 170,000 students are using tranquilizers like Xanax and Valium, up 450 percent. About 225,000 are using Adderall and other stimulants -- often to help them get through finals week.

It is easy to find these drugs in most middle-class medicine cabinets. Students also like them because they are considered safer than street drugs.

A study published in the July 2007 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter found a similar trend among middle school and high school children. The Harvard researchers found that 60% of the children who had prescriptions for such drugs also had friends who asked them to turn them over. One in ten traded or sold their medications.

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