by Sue Scheff | Oct 10, 2018 | Teen Help
This Icon is Trying to Warn You About Teen Cough Medicine Abuse By Stop Medicine Abuse For more than a decade, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) has leveraged the Stop Medicine Abuse initiative to address reports of teens abusing...
by Sue Scheff | May 26, 2017 | Parenting Teens
Teen Medicine Abuse Does the scenario highlighted in the video below seem familiar? I hope not, but the reality is that missing medicine could be a sign of over-the-counter (OTC) medicine abuse. It’s common to hear about teens abusing illegal drugs, alcohol and...
by Sue Scheff | Jan 19, 2017 | Parenting Teens
Online Safety and Teen Medicine Abuse As parents of teenagers, we know that it’s not unusual for teens to spend time online chatting with friends, visiting social networking sites, following sports or celebrities and – hopefully – doing their homework. ...
by Sue Scheff | Dec 2, 2016 | Parenting Teens
Preventing Teen Medicine Abuse Awareness of a problem is the first step to solving it. Parents were recently spreading the word about teen over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine abuse for National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month. Although October has come and...
by Sue Scheff | Sep 8, 2016 | Parenting Teens
Medicine Cabinet and Teens With summer nearly over and an impending cold season on the horizon, millions of Americans will self-treat their symptoms with over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine that contains dextromethorphan (DXM). While DXM can do wonders for a...
