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Facebook, Myspace Increase Teen Substance Abuse Risk

August 25, 2011 by  
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WASHINGTON – Substance abuse is a bigger problem for adolescents who daily spend time on social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, as 70% of American adolescents say they do, according to a survey released Aug. 24 by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Of those adolescents, 26% reported […]

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Warning as children shun books in favour of Facebook

August 23, 2011 by  
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Researchers said “reading frequency declines with age”, particularly when children leave primary school at 11. In the last few years of primary education, children are almost six times more likely to be classed as prolific readers than those in secondary schools. Older pupils were also “considerably more likely to say that they have not read […]

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