Vivvo CMS 4.0 http://www.safetyissues.com/site/ ©2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/files.php?file=banner_450_255680058.jpg http://www.safetyissues.com/site/ http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/is_sending_nude_photos_of_yourself_a_crime.html Teens Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:10:00 -0700 It is a growing problem, and law enforcers and school administrators across the country are still looking for ways to deal with it: teens taking nude photos of themselves and sending these to cell phones or publishing them on the Internet. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/car_surfing_deadly_at_any_speed.html Teens Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:59:00 -0600 In the 18 years from 1990 to August 2008, at least 58 people, most of them teenage boys aged 15-19, have died in the United States due to injuries resulting from ‘car surfing,’ according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/teen_cosmetics_contain_toxic_chemicals.html Teens Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:20:00 -0600 America’s teenage girls may be at risk from hormone-altering and/or toxic chemicals present in the cosmetics and body care products they use, according to a new study on a small group of teenagers released recently by the Environmental Working Group (EWG). http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/are_teen_suicides_on_the_rise.html Teens Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:50:00 -0600 Teen suicide rates have been on the decline for the past 15 years since the 1990s, but a recent study says the trend may have changed course. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/are_parents_becoming_passive_drug_pushers.html Teens Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:38:00 -0600 For the average teenager today, it is much easier to lay hands on prescription drugs than to buy a can of beer, according to a survey conducted by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/teen_sex_trafficking_the_hidden_crime.html Teens Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:20:00 -0600 Last month, the FBI announced the results of a nationwide crackdown on capture pimps engaged in the vilest type of prostitution: child and teen sex trafficking. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/dating_violence_common_among_teens.html Teens Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:25:00 -0600 A recent survey should make parents sit up and pay more attention to their kids. The survey reports that there is a high level of abuse occurring in dating relationships among teens and even among “tweens,” defined as children ages 11 to 14. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/adults_giving_free_alcohol_to_teens.html Teens Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:15:00 -0600 There are about 10.8 million (more than half) of America’s teens (age 12 to 20) who admit to having consumed alcohol in the past month, and at least 4 of 10 among them got their alcohol free from an adult. This finding is included in a study by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/pact_mentality_common_among_teens.html Teens Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:19:00 -0600 A pregnancy pact is the reason 17 girls at Gloucester High School in Massachusetts are now pregnant, according to Time magazine in its June 18 online edition. This number is four times more than the previous year’s figure for this school of 1,200 students. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/making_teen_drivers_safe_drivers.html Teens Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:35:00 -0600 Most safety experts (and insurance companies) know that the risks of accidents are higher for teenage drivers than other drivers. More teenagers are killed from motor vehicle crashes than from any other cause. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/fraternities_can_they_be_saved.html Teens Thu, 08 May 2008 03:55:00 -0600 Two incidents earlier this week involving fraternities have again awakened calls for fraternities to be shut down. On the other hand, many people familiar with the Greek life still argue that while the system is broken it is an institution worth saving. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/mosh_pits_becoming_more_dangerous.html Teens Thu, 08 May 2008 00:15:00 -0600 At the Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey this weekend, a mosh pit went out of control resulting in injuries to at least 50 concertgoers, several of whom witnesses described as carried out on stretchers. As concert and festival season gets into high gear, people should be aware of mosh pit dangers. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/are_painkillers_the_new_trend_in_teen_drug_abuse.html Teens Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:45:00 -0700 Teen drug abuse appears to be on the rise for drugs coming from a different source – the family medicine cabinet. On Tuesday, the President of the United States is set to make public the results of a recent national study that teen use of prescription painkillers is increasing even as overall drug use has continued to decline. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/teen_pregnancy_trending_upwards.html Teens Tue, 25 Dec 2007 15:10:00 -0700 For the first time in over a decade, the teen birthrate (for young people aged 15-19) for the entire country changed direction, increasing by 3 percent between 2005 and 2006, according to a recent report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/girls_beat_fellow_teen_for_video_purposes.html Teens Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:55:00 -0600 A 16-year-old female teen was berated, screamed at, threatened, pummeled and beaten to unconsciousness for 35 minutes by six other girls in Polk County, Florida. Two other male teenagers stood outside the house where the beating took place, acting as lookouts. After the beating, the girl was pushed into a car and dumped somewhere else. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/drug_poisoning_deaths_are_increasing.html Teens Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:00:00 -0600 In 2004, and again in 2005 (the latest year with available data), poisoning was the second-leading cause of deaths arising from injury in the U.S., according to a recently published report from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) in the March Health E-Stats. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/rap_music_glamorizing_use_of_drugs.html Teens Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:40:00 -0600 Since rap music triggered a pop music revolution in 1979, the genre has made a pronounced shift, from warning against using drugs to glorifying it. More than two-thirds of rap songs now make explicit references to drugs, according to the results of a study recently published in Addiction Research & Theory. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/youth_violence_prevention_week.html Teens Sun, 30 Mar 2008 12:11:00 -0600 In recent years, youth violence has increasingly become a serious public health problem. The violence has often resulted in deaths and serious injuries. By celebrating Youth Violence Prevention Week, youth-oriented organizations hope to increase people’s awareness about the causes of youth violence and the victimization that results from it. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/sexual_disease_infects_a_quarter_of_teen_girls.html Teens Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:05:00 -0600 At least one in four (about 26 percent) teen girls in the United States is infected with sexually transmitted disease, reported the U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in a study released recently. The study covered 838 girls who participated in a nationally representative health survey conducted in 2003 and 2004. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/is_your_child_playing_the_choking_game.html Teens Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:19:00 -0700 The U.S. Centers for Disease Prevention and Control recently released the results of the first-ever government study on the “choking game.” This is a game where children try to asphyxiate (themselves or with a friend’s help) and lose consciousness, and then experience euphoria with the rush of oxygen when they revive. If they regain consciousness, that is. http://www.safetyissues.com/site/teens/how_many_more_students_will_die.html Teens Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:24:00 -0700 Five students were killed when a former Northern Illinois University student walked into a lecture hall packed with students of a science class and opened fire. The gunman wounded at least 18 other people before he committed suicide and became the sixth fatality. 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