Housecall: Teen Mental Health Crisis & Drug Use for Coping

The CDC recently shared a study that found that teens are using drugs, often alone, to ease their anxieties. Nearly half of the almost 16,000 surveyed teens said they turned to drugs to "stop worrying about a problem or forget bad memories." Aakash Shah, M.D., Chief of Addiction Medicine at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, joins us to discuss this concerning trend. We discuss the warning signs of drug use in teens, the impact this can have on developing brains and bodies, and how parents, educators and teens themselves can get the help and resources they need.

You can listen to Housecall: Teen Mental Health Crisis & Drug Use for Coping online on Radio and Podcast. Open the player on this page to stream the available audio.

Housecall: Teen Mental Health Crisis & Drug Use for Coping is an episode from Hackensack Meridian Health Podcast by Health U The Hackensack Meridian Health Podcast.

This episode is 00:36:18 long.

This episode was published on Aug 20, 2024.

Yes. Use the heart button on the episode page to add it to your favorite episodes list.

Yes. This page shows related episodes from Hackensack Meridian Health Podcast when more episodes are available from the podcast feed.