Mental Health/Addiction

Artist Ines De la Morena (2022) Caption The effects of depression can be seen in its morbidity. Among teens aged 15-19, depressive disorder accounts for 13% of all years of healthy life lost due to disability (YLD). Depression itself has no mortality rate...

The Canadian Tobacco and Nicotine Survey (CTNS) 2020 reported a vaping prevalence of 14% among youth aged 15-19, unchanged from 15% in CTNS 2019. Adolescents point to curiosity, good flavours, use by friends and family, and low cost as their primary...

While doing research for my policy brief on homelessness and mental illness in California, I saw a statistic that left me speechless: 40-50% of youth in foster care become homeless within a year and a half of emancipation. I’ve since dug deeper into the...

The health problem that I have chosen for this project is the opioid epidemic in the United States. Specifically, I focused on highlighting one of the most vulnerable populations in the country, which are young adults living in Massachusetts. Despite the...

Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world, but while national rates of suicide has declined in recent years, suicides among youth have been rising. According to a 2018 study from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science...

Almost three-quarters of all American adults use at least one form of social media, including 90 percent of adults ages 18–29. For women and teenage girls especially, social media can contribute to negative self-images by amplifying impossible standards...

According to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, one-fifth of American adults grew up with an alcoholic relative. Compared to their peers, these people are four times more likely to abuse alcohol in the future. This video shares the...

In the U.S., 30 million people are estimated to suffer from an eating disorder, and many more display the warning signs of developing one. Eating disorders are most common in individuals in their late teens and early twenties, especially among females...

In China, awareness about the health hazards of smoking is low: Only 25% of Chinese adults have a comprehensive understanding of the specific health hazards of smoking; less than one-third of adults are aware of the dangers of secondhand smoke. I was...

The quality of your mental health impacts how you live, work, and play. According to the 2017 Global Burden of Disease Study, depression and anxiety were among the top ten causes of disability in U.S. And for young people, particularly those between 10...