This Radiolab meets a Cold War negotiator who, in order to quit smoking, backs himself into a tactical corner, and we visit a clinic in Russia where patients turn to a radical treatment to help fight their demons.
John McCardell, former President of Middlebury College and UVM Psychiatry Professor John Searles speak with VPR’s Jane Lindholm about lowering the drinking age to 18.
Vermont teenagers are smoking and drinking less than they
were eight years ago. That’s
the good news in the latest survey of risky behavior among the state’s youth.
The
bad news is that they smoke more marijuana than the national average, and have
a relatively high rate of binge drinking.