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December 20, 2025

Cannabis and Pregnancy & How Parenting Can Prevent Risk-Taking in Teens

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Cannabis and Pregnancy

Cannabis today packs 15-30% THC compared to just 3% in the 1980s. Mallar Chakravarty, PhD, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Brain Imaging Centre at the Douglas Research Centre at McGill University, outlines the facts that every pregnant woman needs to know.

How Parental Engagement and Personalized Parenting Prevent Risk-Taking in Teens

What if understanding your teen\'s genetic wiring could prevent dangerous choices? Danielle Dick, PhD, Director of the Rutgers Addiction Research Center based at Rutgers Brain Health Institute, says parents may have more influence than they realize when it comes to shaping their children’s behavior, especially for those at higher genetic risk for conduct problems.

How Sleep Consistency Lowers Blood Pressure

Remarkably, something as simple as going to bed at the same time each night could lower your blood pressure. Saurabh Thosar, PhD, Associate Professor at Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences at Oregon Health & Science University, found that tightened your bedtime variability from 30 minutes to seven minutes could result clinically meaningful improvements.

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