SECTION ON ADOLESCENTS
Director: Ken Winters, Ph.D.
SELECTED PAST PROJECTS
Adolescent Brain Development; Ken C. Winters, Ph.D. Science shows that brain development is still in progress during adolescence, and that immature brain structures may place teenagers at elevated risk of substance abuse and arrested brain development. Read Report or View Presentation.
Keep Internet Neighborhoods Safe: Preventing Internet Sales of Controlled Substances to Youth; A. Thomas McLellan, Ph.D. TRI joined the Harvard Law School’s Center for International Criminal Justice; Drug Strategies; OpenAir; and the Weill Medical Center of Cornell University, to lead a public/private sector consortium of more than fifty organizations dedicated to developing new strategies to curtail Internet drug trafficking. Work of the coalition was based on TRI research in 2004 demonstrating the ease with which cyber-savvy teenagers could purchase drugs from rogue Internet pharmacies. A. Thomas McLellan, then TRI Executive Director, testified on the subject before Congress in 2007.
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