Roughly one-third of young males and 1 in 10 females in rural communities have carried a handgun, reports a new 91探花 study. And, the study found, many of those rural kids started carrying as early as the sixth grade. 鈥淭his is one of the first longitudinal studies of rural adolescent handgun carrying across multiple states in the U.S.聽It provides evidence that youth handgun carrying in these settings is not uncommon,鈥� said lead author Dr. Ali Rowhani-Rahbar, a UW…
Want to prevent kids from using drugs and make it stick into young adulthood? Get the community involved and intervene before they鈥檙e teens, say researchers from the 91探花. A new, longitudinal study from the 91探花Social Development Research Group shows that young adults who grew up in communities that used a coordinated, science-based approach to prevention were more likely to have abstained from substance use, violence and other antisocial behaviors through age 21. Researchers at the group,…