According to an American College Health Association poll, 24 percent of students blamed sleep difficulties for a drop in their GPAs. Nearly half of full-time college students binge drink, use prescription drugs recreationally or abuse illegal drugs each month, according to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. One in seven young adults reports having experienced a serious mental illness such as depression in the past year, finds a data review by Jane Park, a researcher in the division of adolescent medicine at the University of California-San Francisco school of medicine. Fourteen percent of students surveyed by the American College Health Association admitted using withdrawal as their method of birth control the last time they had sex; 12 percent of female students said they sought emergency contraception in the previous school year. Unnoticed — and untreated — problems such as anxiety, an eating disorder or substance abuse can kill, or at the very least wreak havoc with school performance. Experts recommend looking for a style of practice that openly addresses sexually transmitted diseases, mental health, substance abuse, tobacco use and daredevil behavior. read more
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