| Adolescents seek to relieve tension through risk behaviors such as substance use that only compound the negative psychological and physical toll. |
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| Among some adolescent boys and girls, nonextreme strategies that were being used to decrease weight developed into health risk behaviors. |
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| Now think of some possible ways to link being gay, engaging in risk behaviors, experiencing hostility and alienation. |
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| Research has shown that the use of supervised injecting centres is associated with self-reported reductions in injecting risk behaviors. |
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| To measure participant risk behaviors, participants completed the ACASI at baseline, 6, 12 and 18 months. |
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| A pre-existing survey that monitors health risk behaviors among youth was used to collect data on 1988 female youth living in households. |
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| These are the most cost effective means of reducing HIV related risk behaviors. |
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| Related risk behaviors and perceptions were also positively impacted by the intervention. |
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| For example, besides the physiological detriments, cigarette use often precedes marijuana and alcohol use and is concurrent with other risk behaviors such as fighting. |
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| The long-term benefit of this strategy might avert teenage violence, risk behaviors, depression and suicide. |
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| This change in perception of background risk is correlated to their real-life risk behaviors. |
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| Many adolescents engage in multiple risk behaviors. |
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| From an initial research project on risk behaviors, the team was able to identify which clients would most benefit from specialized mental health services using a homecare model. |
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| The risk behaviors associated with the use of a legal psychoactive substance such as alcohol, represent one of our most damaging social problems, with neurological, physiological and behavioral repercussions. |
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| For some time, clinicians have recognized that dysphoric youth engage in high risk behaviors, specifically substance abuse and early sexual activity. |
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