Peer-influenced content. Sources you trust. No registration required. This is HCN.
Clinical Advisor
Past-year creatine use among U.S. adolescents roughly doubled between 2019 and 2024, even as anabolic steroid use continued a two-decade decline, according to a national survey of nearly 875,000 students.
Adolescent Medicine June 30th 2026
MDLinx
A resurgent social media challenge involving high-dose diphenhydramine ingestion has been linked to seizures, cardiac arrest, and adolescent deaths, with poison center calls more than doubling in the first half of 2026 compared with all of 2025.
Physician’s Weekly
A narrative review and accompanying expert commentary outlined diagnostic features distinguishing substance-induced psychosis from primary psychotic disorders amid rising cannabis and stimulant exposure.
Psychiatry May 27th 2026
American Nurse Journal (ANJ)
1 in 20 middle school students and 1 in 10 high school students currently use a tobacco product.
Adolescent Medicine May 18th 2026
US poison centers logged a 1,200% rise in kratom calls over a decade, with 2025 hitting 3,434 cases and 233 deaths tied to use during the study period.
Emergency Medicine April 27th 2026
“The amygdala’s response to social threat appears to feed into depressive symptoms much more strongly in young males than in young females.” — John Krystal, MD, Biological Psychiatry
Adolescent Medicine April 14th 2026