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Create a Personal Stress Management Guide

By completing the information below, you can begin to create a stress relief plan that will work for you. All of these ideas can lower stress without doing any harm. None are quick fixes, but they will lead you toward a healthy and successful life.

Drugs and Teen Substance Abuse

The mission of this site is to provide information and resources to empower individuals to help teens and heal families.

Helping Teenagers with Stress

Most teens experience more stress when they perceive a situation as dangerous, difficult, or painful and they do not have the resources to cope.

Medline Plus: Substance Abuse

Multiple resources are provided on alcohol, drug, tobacco and steriod abuse.

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Students and Young Adults

All of the materials available through NIDA InfoFacts have been developed by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services.

Teens and Stress

It is very important for teens to learn to handle stress, as long-term build-up of stress that is not handled effectively may lead to problems, including physical illness, anxiety or depression, which call for professional help.

World Health Organization

Provides information about abuse around the world.

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