Drug Approach to Opioid Overdoses Gaining Ground

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There’s new indications that administering the drug naloxone to halt an opioid overdose is the best strategy, advocates of naloxone distribution said.

It’s an important conversation to have, the advocates and drug abuse experts say, because deaths from opioid overdose have been climbing across the country since the close of the century. From 1999 to 2011, drug overdose death rates rose 118 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. No one knows exactly how many of those are teenagers and young adults, but experts say use of heroin and prescription painkillers among youth have become epidemic.

OP-ED: Costs to Incarcerate Young People Tip of Iceberg

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In a new report from the Justice Policy Institute, “Sticker Shock: The Full Price Tag for Youth Incarceration,” we expand on our previous work on what it costs young people, their families and our communities when we overrely on incarceration.

Youngsters Push for Solutions in Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools

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Schools should have mood detectors instead of metal detectors, George Carter once observed. The New Orleans student, who turned 15 this year, was a founding member of Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools.

Organized in 2006 in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the organization seeks to help young people develop a voice in society and in their schools. In 2006, a debate about school reform was swirling in the city.

[Photos] Young, LGBTQ And Homeless

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On a street called Juniper in Atlanta is a house growing more welcoming every day to LGBTQ teens looking for a safe and restful place.

This is a project of Lost-n-Found, a nonprofit with the aim of taking this vulnerable population off the streets and into housing, permanently. With a big boost from Atlanta’s Saint Mark United Methodist Church, the grand but decaying house at 768 will be ready… soon.