Escrever muitos SMS's faz mal

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For teens, sending too many text messages is resulting in anxiety, distraction in school and dropping grades, repetitive stress injury and sleep loss, according to a new study. The study discovered that the average teenager sends and receives an impressive 80 text messages on average every day, with some kids losing sleep and forcing their hurting thumbs to the limit just to keep up with the continual SMS threads.

O acesso facilitado aos medicamentos

Não sabemos o que se passa em Portugal, sobre o acesso a medicamentos sob prescrição. Nos EUA, a situação não é boa, sobretudo tendo em conta que muitos dos que acedem aos medicamentos são jovens e podem utilizá-los com fins não desejáveis.

Vejamos o que aqui nos dizem:

• A growing number of teenagers say it's easier to illegally obtain prescription drugs than to buy beer, according to a survey published today.
• The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University asked: "Which is easiest for someone your age to buy: cigarettes, beer, marijuana, or prescription drugs such as OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin or Ritalin, without a prescription?" Nineteen percent of teenagers found it easier to purchase prescription drugs than cigarettes, beer or marijuana, compared with 13 percent a year ago.

Mas, o pior é que os jovens têm uma confiança excessiva nos medicamentos: "Kids think that because these are medicines that are prescribed, they are safe," she said. "The problem is that there is very little difference between the amount they take for a high and the amount that causes an overdose."