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Efforts to Prevent Teen Addiction

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Tonya Turner, Associate Director for Clinical Services and registered dietician and nutrition specialist at the Weight Management Center at MUSC

This week Bobbi Conner talks with Susan King about why adolescents are vulnerable to drug and alcohol addiction, and what parents can do to help prevent addiction.  Ms. King is a Clinical Instructor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at MUSC.  

Bobbi Conner has been producing and hosting public radio programs for over 30 years. She was the longtime host of the national Parents Journal public radio program. Conner has lived in the Charleston area for over twenty years.