All posts tagged "addiction"
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Students, staff weigh healthy balance of coffee drinking
Lots of high school students drink coffee, either before they leave the house or bringing it to school with them. With the amount of coffee...
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Recovery from addiction starts with constructive steps
On top of suicide awarness month, September is also national recovery month. This means that this month is a great time to talk about something...
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New Drug: Sugar, caffeine usage can lead to dangerous addictions
Most people know that sugar isn’t good for them, but do they know most scientists consider it to be as addictive as cocaine. When sugar...
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Overuse of social media can lead to addiction
Seemingly everyone using social media these days. To some, it’s an easy way to connect to friends and family, but now students are overusing the...
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The problem with pills
Worldwide, the abuse of prescription drugs has become one of the biggest epidemics in the last few years. According to the statistics of www.drugabuse.gov, an...
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Student’s Pressures On The Rise
With rising college tuition and increased competition in college admissions and scholarships, it’s not unusual for the average high school student to be incredibly stressed...
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Addictive websites eat up students’ time
Lindsey Davis/Staff Writer Imagine how much homework students could get done in a night’s work if there was no Internet. It’s possible that math assignments...
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Internet consumes our modern life
By Margaret Poe 2004 OK, I admit it: I am an Internetaholic, and I’m ready to tell the world. The world needs to know; I...
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30 students square off in Holmes chess tournament
Thirty Holmes Junior High students recently squared off in a chess tournament in ninth-grade science teacher Maria Hoekstra’s classroom during Tiger Time. The winner was seventh-grader Alexander Fuchtman who...
