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Injured athletes battle mental illness more

Sola Okenla, RN, BSN
theGRIO REPORT - Injured athletes have an increased risk of developing mental illnesses and are less likely to seek psychiatric help...
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'Choking game' has taken hold with black kids

Dr. Tyeese Gaines
theGRIO REPORT - The 'choking game' involves decreasing the amount of oxygen to the brain, leading to a sensation which some describe as floaty, tingling, or a euphoric high...
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Wendy Williams: 'I felt very close to Whitney'

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Williams, choking up, went on to quietly explain her own past struggles with addiction and said she had hoped to one day meeting the singer, whom she interviewed on the radio in 2003...
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Rural teens benefit from family intervention

Dr. Terrance McGill
theGRIO REPORT - Increasing family interactions and communication resulted in decreased rates of substance abuse, depression and conduct problems among a group of teens in the rural South in a first-of-its-kind program, a recent study shows...
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CRACK VS. POWDER COCAINE.  In 2010, the President signed the Fair Sentencing Act, which narrowed the huge disparity between sentences for possession of crack cocaine vs. powder cocaine.  Under the old law, possession of five grams of crack resulted in the same mandatory five-year sentence as five hundred grams of powder cocaine.  Obama reduced the 100 to 1 ratio to 18 to 1.  Crack users are disproportionately African-American, and the war on drugs has been a war on the poor and people of color, destroying black families and communities.  As a result of America’s drug laws, the U.S. has the world’s largest prison population, and a majority of prisoners are blacks and Latinos.

Study: Black teens use less drugs than whites

Onome Akpogheneta
theGRIO REPORT - A new study examining alcohol and drug use among teens has revealed that African-American adolescents are less likely abuse drugs than teens from other ethnic groups...
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Drug drama continues to dog Whitney Houston's family

Ronda Racha Penrice
OPINION - Unfortunately, if Bobbi Kristina is indeed using drugs, it's not a surprising development. There were warning signs...
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