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INTRODUCTION
Vapes, JUULs, Weed, Mental Health and Teens
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CERTIFICATE
INTRODUCTION
Credit Hours: CME 1.00
Target Audience:
Primary care providers and support staff (nurses, social workers), specialists, adolescent medicine providers
Educational Objectives:
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Explain how and why teens use e-cigarettes and JUULs and why this is a problem.
- Explain why the legalization of marijuana should not be understood to vouch for its safety, especially in teens.
- Describe how exposure to nicotine and marijuana in the teen years increases risk of life long addiction.
Suggested Additional Reading:
- NIDA for Teens: https://teens.drugabuse.gov/
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline: https://suicidepreventionlifelone.org/
- Crisis Text Line: https://www.crisistextline.org/
- OK2Talk about Mental Health: http://ok2talk.org/
- Real Talk with Dr. Offutt: http://realtalkwithdroffutt.org
- Teens Health from Nemours: http://kidshealth.org/en/teens
- Leventhal, 2015
- Singh, 2015
Authors:
Laura Offutt, MD, FACP
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Practitioner and Founder of Global Teen Health Week
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authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to
control the content of this education activity have relevant
financial relationships with any companies whose primary business
is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing
healthcare products used by or on patients.
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