One opinion, given by author Roger Tierney in Suicide Prevention in the Schools, states that the most effective way for students to be educated on the facts of suicide, awareness, and prevention is for a program to be implemented which allows teens who have overcame suicide to lead and educate their fellow students (Leenaars 13-14, 88). ... By allowing school specialists to serve as supervisors in the program, it gives Alaska school systems to directly take a part in decreasing suicide among their teenage population. Ultimately heading the Alaska Teen Suicide Prevention Program would be a ...

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Teachers are told to give the technical aspects of sex education without telling the students about moral values, how to make the right decisions, and abstinence. ... This motivation for acceptance within a social group can be a very strong driving force that pushes teenagers to start having sex as the notion of "since everyone is doing it" has been instilled in their heads. ... Chlamydia is more common among teens than among older men and women. ...

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