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The youth of America are abusing booze less and weed more, according to a new study that looked at two decades of data on teens and school-aged children who wound up seeking medical care after taking various substances.Adolescent cannabis abuse has increased by a whopping 245 percent in the US since 2000, the new research finds, with a particularly dramatic rise occuring in just the past few years.At the same time, rates of alcohol abuse have declined among those aged between 6 and 18 years. Back in 2000, alcohol was in…

Before 8-year-old Sophia Mason’s body was found curled inside a bathtub in a Merced home, the young girl’s extended family tried desperately to raise the alarm. For more than a year, Sophia’s aunt, grandmother, teachers and doctors reported signs the girl was being abused and neglected, at times pleading with social workers to remove her from her mother’s care. There had been bruises and scabs and what looked like cigarette burns on her body. All were reported to child welfare workers, according to a legal claim filed…

Content warning: this article discusses domestic abuse. During a stream on Twitch in the early hours of Sunday morning (October 16), Kaitlyn “Amouranth” Siragusa appeared emotional as she spoke on loudspeaker to a person alleged to be her husband. As seen by Hunter Grooms, Siragusa went on to allege that her husband controls her finances and pushes her to stream more than she wants to. It is also claimed that her husband additionally threatened to kill her dogs. In a series of videos shared directly from her Twitch…

Angelina Jolie has sued ex-husband Brad Pitt, detailing in public court filings for the first time abuse by him of her and their children that she says led to their divorce. In a legal dispute over a winery they once owned together, Jolie details in a countersuit filed Tuesday an altercation in 2016 on a private plane during which she says Pitt “choked one of the children” and “struck another in the face” while verbally assaulting them. “Pitt grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed…

Angelina Jolie has filed a countersuit against her ex-husband Brad Pitt, disclosing new details of alleged abusive behaviour during a 2016 private jet ride. On Tuesday (4 October), as part of an ongoing legal battle over the French winery they once owned, the Maleficent star filed a cross-complaint. In the court filings, seen by The New York Times, Jolie’s lawyers claimed that negotiations to sell her share of the business had broken down after Pitt demanded she sign “a nondisclosure agreement that would have…

Although Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been legally separated since 2019, the pair of Mr. & Mrs. Smith stars divorce battle continues. The latest is some particularly major allegations from Jolie regarding her ex’s treatment toward her and their children during a plane incident that took place on the heels of her filing in 2016. Jolie has detailed specifics of alleged abuse after previously bringing it to court last year. In a cross complaint that was made on by Angelina Jolie’s lawyers on Tuesday, in response to…

We encounter statistics every day, but it is not always easy to interpret them appropriately. During her doctoral thesis work in the abstract field of number theory, Dutch mathematician Ionica Smeets noticed that it was very difficult for laypeople to find understandable scientific explanations of statistics. So she decided to change that. Now Smeets authors books, writes for newspapers and speaks about her field on television. She is widely known in her home country of the Netherlands, where she mediates between science…

Getting emotional about football online shouldn’t lead to abuse of individual players. Credit: Prostock-studio / Shutterstock As the new Premier League football season gets underway, a few things are certain. There will be goals, drama and excitement, and unfortunately, players will be subjected to vile abuse on social media.…

Marcus Mumford has opened up about being sexually abused as a child.Ahead of his new solo album, “Self-Titled,” the lead singer of Mumford & Sons spoke with GQ about his latest single, “Cannibal,” a deeply raw and personal song that received a Steven Spielberg-directed music video. “Like lots of people — and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people — I was sexually abused as a child,” Mumford told the magazine. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s…

Marcus Mumford, frontman of the band Mumford & Sons, has said that he was the victim of childhood sexual abuse.“Like lots of people – and I’m learning more and more about this as we go and as I play it to people – I was sexually abused as a child,” he told GQ magazine. “Not by family and not in the church, which might be some people’s assumption. But I hadn’t told anyone about it for 30 years.”Mumford’s parents were international leaders of the Vineyard Churches, a neocharismatic evangelical Christian…