I'm thrilled to be sharing news with you about our new movie coming out at the end of this month, Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age. And to share a sneak peek of the beginning of the actual film!
Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age, the third feature documentary in the Screenagers trilogy, delves into how the tech revolution has reshaped adolescence and its effects on substance use. The film debunks myths and depicts strategies parents and schools can use to encourage healthy decision-making, support teen mental health, set limits, and create healthy home environments. The film also includes many ways young people are using their wisdom and strength to help each other and themselves through this complicated terrain around substance use.
While most documentaries about substance use focus on severe addiction, Screenagers Under The Influence fills a pressing need for a film that explores more common scenarios. The film is grounded in teens’ current reality of being flooded by images on social media, movies, and TV shows about vaping, drugs, and alcohol. Like the first two Screenagers films, Screenagers Under The Influence interweaves cutting-edge science with personal stories to create an informative and entertaining film experience for young people and adults alike. Screenagers Under The Influence focuses on practical solutions for keeping our teens safe in a changing world.
**Some of the experts include Lisa Damour Psychologist, Author of Under Pressure and NY TImes Parents writer; Dr. Benjamin Danielson, Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington; Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai; Dr. Joseph LaBrie is a Professor of Psychology at Loyola Marymount University; Anna Lembke, Author of Dopamine Nation & Chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic: Sharon Levy, MD, Director of Adolescent Addiction Program at Boston Children’s; Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health; Rosalind Wiseman, Author of Queen Bees and Wannabes turned into the movie Mean Girls.
Testimonial: “Screenagers Under The Influence hits all the points in a non-judgmental, non-threatening, compassionate way and shares practical solutions so the viewer can come away feeling like they have the knowledge and tools to respond in this current environment our youth are navigating with alcohol, drugs, and screens. The timing could not be better or more urgent" — Kelsey Fernandez, Executive Director of Marin Healthy Youth Partnerships
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I'm thrilled to be sharing news with you about our new movie coming out at the end of this month, Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age. And to share a sneak peek of the beginning of the actual film!
Screenagers Under The Influence: Addressing Vaping, Drugs, and Alcohol in the Digital Age, the third feature documentary in the Screenagers trilogy, delves into how the tech revolution has reshaped adolescence and its effects on substance use. The film debunks myths and depicts strategies parents and schools can use to encourage healthy decision-making, support teen mental health, set limits, and create healthy home environments. The film also includes many ways young people are using their wisdom and strength to help each other and themselves through this complicated terrain around substance use.
In the news, podcasts, social media, and shows, there is a lot of talk about magic mushrooms, aka “shrooms,” and their potential benefits through their psychoactive component called psilocybin. For example, people talk about how consuming mushrooms can create life-changing experiences in full or microdoses. In addition, there is a lot of buzz about the important research being done to uncover potential medical applications. However, what concerns me is that all these media outlets often fail to address the risks of psychedelics and ways to prevent such risks. I’ve written this blog to offer an effective way to talk to teens about these risks, knowing that such conversations can be tricky.
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The moment we talk about drugs and the brain, it is common for teens to say to themselves, “There goes those adults saying we are frying our brains by just smoking some weed.” For my latest film, I was thrilled to find neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd and her cutting-edge research to explain in a calm, direct, convincing way without resorting to scare tactics. Watch with your kids a captivating 3-minute clip from the film where Dr. Hurd explains the most current research on brain development and the effects of exposure to the chemical THC, the psychoactive component of weed.
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Today, I’m writing about cannabis — or, as teens mainly refer to it, weed. Weed is by far the most common term. “Pot” is rarely used by younger people. I have worked hard in my clinic to refrain from using that word. I also do not use the term marijuana, although that term often gets used in research papers. In today’s blog, I write about four important topics and questions to discuss with youth in your life.
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