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Substance Abuse & Marketing Towards Teens

Drug abuse has been an issue that really all generations have had to deal with. And Gen Z is no different.

But what should we tell our teens about using drugs, and what should we mention about our own history with drugs?

Dr. Gary Kirkilas is back to help us discuss drugs with our teens and young adults. He is a pediatrician in Phoenix, Arizona with a unique mobile practice, as well as a spokesperson for the AAP.

He'll tell us all about what age to start talking about drugs, how to approach these conversations, and what the future of legalization means for teenage drug use in this encore episode from February 2021.

Substance Abuse & Marketing Towards Teens
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Dr. Gary Kirkilas
Dr. Gary Kirkilas is a pediatrician in Phoenix, Arizona with a unique practice. His office is a 40 foot medical R.V. that travels from shelter to shelter providing free care to the Phoenix homeless youth population. Gary’s passion for providing care to the underserved first started after spending a month in Oaxaca, Mexico with CFHI’s Cultural Crossroad program in 2005. Since then he was the 2006 CFHI Alumni Grant recipient where he created an Alcohol and Sex Education curriculum in a rural village in Oaxaca. He later served as a student liaison for the Cultural Crossroads program in Oaxaca in 2007.
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