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Juuling: A New kind of Smoking

Kelly Bickett • June 1, 2018

Over the past few years, the U.S. has seen a decrease in the use of cigarettes and an increase in the use of e-cigarettes also called vapes. Most recently, there has been a spike in the use of a new vape...

Raving: Worth the Risk it Poses?

September 6, 2013

Eleven years ago, music promoter Pasquale Rotella produced a rave that set the stage for electronic dance music to surface from its Ecstasy-charged urban underground. It ended in the deaths of five people,...

The “Good-Grade Pill”

May 13, 2013

Student abuse of Adderall and Ritalin isn’t a new problem. What have been deemed the “good-grade pills” have long been providing college campuses with the fuel to get through all-nighters. But,...

High Risk Calls For a New Stigma

February 28, 2013

Putting on your seat belt is habitual. It always has been for our generation. The cultural campaign of Gen. Y? Perhaps, a social movement towards not drinking and driving. “Don’t drink and drive....