Young India Network for Good Health

Heady childhood Marijuana addiction is coming out of universities and into schools with children as young as 11 experimenting with it Veenu Sandhu   March 19, 2016  "Doctor, have you tried marijuana?" "No" "Then how do you know it is bad?" Brahmdeep Sindhu, senior psychiatrist at the Civil Hospital in Gurgaon, was stumped when a 14-year-old from a prominent school threw this question at him. "The child then went to great lengths, quoting blogs he had read on the internet, to convince me why he, many of his classmates and some of his juniors, children as young as 12, thought it was harmless, even beneficial, to smoke up." Every month, 15 to 20 new cases of schoolchildren, boys and girls, are brought by their parents to Sindhu for counselling. They are all hooked to cannabis: often marijuana  (the leaf of the plant) and sometimes hashish (extracted from the plant's resin). Far away from Gurgaon, i...

Social Media And Best Interest Of The Child Category:   Alcohol Culture ,  Marketing ,  Policy ,  Youth Email Share on Twitter Share on Facebook What kind of social defence do we have for the social media? It socializes and influences to an increasingly greater extent. And its impact seems to become bigger compared to “real life” social relations. It seems impossible for parents and teachers to monitor their children online. I was watching a  televised debate  on National Television DD News this week about a  news story  published in a Daily news paper:  “Close Facebook accounts now, Bangalore school tells its kids”.  It was interesting to see how the decision of the school triggers a national debate in the best interest of the child. Questions raised during the debate were for instance: Should we just leave it to the child and let him/her decide? When does a virtual boundary cross the social boundaries and harms the ...

Via Ankita, Pehchaan Radio Club member Peer pressures are influences that people your age have on you. For teens especially, peers become increasingly important. Us teens are very concerned about our image, the image that affects what others thinks of us.  Being accepted and fitting in is a huge goal for most of us. Some teens would go to great extremes to become noticed.  No one wants to feel estranged. They would put themselves in an uncomfortable position so that they could become popular.

Via Saloni, Pehchaan D.A.V. Radio Club Member Teenagers feel peer pressure every day in their lives, whether in school or out on the town. During their teenage years, kids differentiate themselves from their parents by participating in peer groups, and sometimes, these groups offer negative choices to teens. Oftentimes, “just saying no” isn't enough, and teens must look inward at self-confidence and personal convictions to make good choices. The reality is that teenagers are more likely than adults over 25 to binge drink, have casual sex, participate in negative situations, and get in automobile accidents. Given this increased likelihood of risky behavior, how can teens learn to make good decisions and choices while also maintaining friendships?

Say ' NO ' and let them know you mean it. ^|^ Stand up straight   O_O Make eye contact   :O Say how you feel   /\ Don't make excuses   :) Stick up for yourself     Source: http://www.thecoolspot.gov/index.asp

I know...It is never easy to say that NO to your loving friends. Why? Because YOU: ^ are afraid of being rejected by them ^ want to be liked and don’t want to lose a friend ^ don’t want to be made fun of ^ don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings ^ aren’t sure of what they really want ^ don’t know how to get out of the situation But...You have to over power these feelings. Take help from your parents,siblings and teachers. :)   Source: http://www.thecoolspot.gov/index.asp

The right to say 'NO' ! If someone is pressuring you to do anything that's not right or good for you, you have the right to say NO . You don't have to give a reason for your NO and you can simply walk away without feeling bad. It is your Right.

KOLKATA: The age at which an average person begins drinking hard liquor has dropped from 28 years a decade ago to 18 now, an indication that a sizeable number of school students is consuming alcohol. With 16% of drinkers turning alcoholics in India, the decline in drinking age can potentially trigger an explosion in the number of people suffering from alcoholism. A person is labelled an alcoholic if he or she has the urge to consume alcohol daily and downs more than two pegs. "Not only do a lot of children experiment with alcohol at a very tender age, the social acceptance of drinking in urban areas is expanding the vulnerable group. While not everyone who drinks liquor turns alcoholic, the lower the age of consumption, higher the chance of a person becoming addicted to alcohol," socio psychologist Nandini Chatterjee said on the sidelines of a meet organized by Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a support group for alcoholics. While de-addiction from alcohol and dea...

Here are some good things friends can pressure each other to do: Be honest :) Avoid Alcohol ** Avoid drugs |**| Not smoke <O Be nice :D Respect others :K Work hard :O Exercise (together!) :P You and your friends can also use good peer pressure to help each other resist bad peer pressure.       Source: http://www.thecoolspot.gov/peer_pressure6.asp

"Peer Pressure" isn’t all bad. You and your friends can pressure each other into some things that will improve your health and social life and make you feel good about your decisions. Think of a time when a friend pushed you to do something good for yourself or to avoid something that would’ve been bad.

The rewards outweigh the risks -- when you're in a group, anyway. A new USC study explains why people take stupid chances when all of their friends are watching that they would never take by themselves. According to the study, the human brain places more value on winning in a social setting than it does on winning when you're alone. Georgio Coricelli of the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences led a multinational team of researchers that measured activity in the regions of the brain associated with rewards and with social reasoning while participants in the study entered in lotteries. Their study appears this month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers found that the striatum, a part of the brain associated with rewards, showed higher activity when a participant beat a peer in the lottery, as opposed to when the participant won while alone. The medial prefrontal cortex, a part of the brain associated with...

"Peer Pressure" is the influence exerted by a peer group, encouraging individuals to change their attitudes, values, or behaviors in order to conform to group norms... But whats "Peer Pressure" for you?? Is it always negative or is their any positive side to peer pressure???                                          Photo Courtesy: ICMR, Mumbai