It’s always good to have someone to turn to when you are going through a tough time. And life, as we all know, can be full of those bumpy patches. That’s especially true of the teen years. Toss yourself for a moment back into that tumult of peer relationships, galloping hormones, bad judgment and all…

You will break your neck. That jumping rock you did the perfect gainer off of yesterday, into the swirl of dark river water below? Well, today the sandbar has shifter so the water is four-feet deep, not 12. Or a log has drifted into that hole, or maybe a stump has rolled into it, or…

Heroin may be about to get a mean on. That’s what JJIE’s Ryan Schill writes in a three-part series this week. Though statistics don’t show an enormous surge in heroin arrests, both current and former users, as well as counselors report an upsurge in use among teens, mostly white, mostly suburban. Increased supply, its relative…

Aren’t experiments cool? Well, OK, not always. Sometimes the chemistry set blows up, but most of the time you learn something at least. We just finished up an experiment here at JJIE, and thanks to you it was successful. Bill Sanders, a former features writer at the Atlanta Journal Constitution brought us a story idea…

Drugs in this country come in and out of style. Some of them leave the scene pretty quickly, thank goodness. Then there are the ones that always seem to linger unwelcomed, sometimes quiet in the background, sometimes bursting into the open. That’s heroin. Like a drunk at an otherwise pleasant gathering, it’s there around the…