Patricia Conrod, professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, developed a program that recognizes how children’s temperament drives their risk for drug use, indicating different pathways to ...

PLYMOUTH – Local schools will try to protect students from a life of addiction by targeting those deemed most susceptible and getting them help at an early age. The PreVenture program, based on ...

A program that predicts which teens are likely to engage in risky drug and alcohol use - and works to prevent them from doing so - is being rolled out in schools along the South Coast. Deputy editor ...

The Athens County Prosecutor’s Office is taking a proactive approach to preventing and reducing alcohol and drug abuse among adolescents. Athens County Prosecuting Attorney Keller Blackburn is ...

Brief cognitive behavioural interventions that help young people manage aspects of their personality, such as impulsivity, sensation seeking, hopelessness, and anxiety sensitivity, have been shown to ...

Schools offered the PreVenture program to Grade 7 students considered at risk of developing substance use disorders, after they were evaluated for four personality traits: impulsivity, sensation ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Higher than average levels of impulsiveness, sensitivity to anxiety, sensation seeking and hopelessness. These four personality traits ...

ATHENS — As the Athens County prosecutor, Keller Blackburn sees the drug-addiction crisis from the courtroom, where he prosecutes dealers, abusers and others caught up in drug-related crimes. Now, he ...

Patricia Conrod, professor of psychiatry at the University of Montreal, developed a program that recognizes how children’s temperament drives their risk for drug use, indicating different pathways to ...