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		<title>Peer Pressure is Hardwired into Our Brains</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Resisting peer pressure may be more challenging than you think – especially since new research shows that it’s actually hardwired into our brains.
A study by University of Southern California researchers helps explain why people are willing to take stupid chances when friends are watching that they would never take by themselves.  Brain scans show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Study Offers Novel Approaches to Decreasing Marijuana Use Among Teenagers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Encouraging results from a new study show that simple conversation may reduce marijuana use among teenagers &#8211; a finding that may influence anti-drug education in schools, according to researchers.
University of Washington researchers conducted a study in which they visited high school classrooms and gave a short presentation about marijuana myths and facts.  They then offered [...]]]></description>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nobody wakes up one morning and suddenly decides to be a smoker. Smoking is a habit picked up from others who smoke. It&#8217;s a social disease. Individuals do it in imitation of somebody they respect who smokes, like parents or teachers, or they do it because their high school or college friends smoke and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Scans Show Why Teens Give Into Peer Pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 21:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Manny</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your children know the dangers of drugs, alcohol and sex.  You&#8217;ve told them all about the risk factors, the negative outcomes, the ruined lives.  They know &#8211; they tell you &#8211; that those outcomes aren&#8217;t something they want for themselves.
And yet, there&#8217;s a disparity between what children know, and what they do around friends.
New research [...]]]></description>
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