“Marijuana is not as innocent as it is being perceived,” said Yifrah Kaminer, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Health Center<\/a>. Kaminer spends a good deal of his time trying to help area kids who can’t kick their marijuana addiction. Often, they come from communities where folks don’t want to talk about a surge in marijuana use.<\/p>\n Read more ><\/a><\/p>\n Aired on Fox CT, June 27, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n <\/strong>Amy Hanoian-Fontana from the Connecticut Poison Control Center<\/a> discusses two dangerous drug trends with Logan Byrnes on FOX CT<\/a>.<\/p>\n “Marijuana is not as innocent as it is being perceived,” said Yifrah Kaminer, a professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Connecticut Health Center<\/a>. Kaminer spends a good deal of his time trying to help area kids who can’t kick their marijuana addiction. Often, they come from communities where folks don’t want to talk about a surge in marijuana use.<\/p>\n Watch the video > Aired on WNPR-FM, June 27, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Department of Community Medicine and Health Care professor Richard Stevens<\/a> joins WNPR\u2019s Ray Hardman on \u201cMorning Edition<\/a>\u201d to discuss the American Medical Association\u2019s acknowledgement of the adverse health effects associated with exposure to artificial light at night. The AMA\u2019s action is based on recommendations in a report Stevens helped write and is likely to lead to further study of exposure to light at night, circadian rhythm disruption, and melatonin suppression, with implications for conditions including breast cancer, diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080, June 17, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dr. Peter Albertsen<\/a>, chief of Urology, discusses prostate cancer and prostate health with Bill Pearse for a Father\u2019s Day edition of \u201cAt Home in Connecticut\u201d on WTIC NewsTalk 1080<\/a>. The AMA\u2019s action is based on recommendations in a report Stevens helped write and is likely to lead to further study of exposure to light at night, circadian rhythm disruption, and melatonin suppression, with implications for conditions including breast cancer, diabetes and obesity.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > Aired on WTIC NewsTalk 1080 and 96.5 TIC-FM, June 10, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n Dermatologist Diane Whitaker-Worth<\/a> joins Sam Gingerella on WTIC NewsTalk 1080<\/a> to clear up some misperceptions about sunscreen and recommend ways to avoid the damaging effects of sun exposure.<\/p>\n Listen to the broadcast > Follow\u00a0the UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Teen pot use; dangerous drug fads; light at night; prostate health; and sunscreen misperceptions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":53726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-62375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-23 01:04:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88478,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62375\/revisions\/88478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/53726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62375"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=62375"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=62375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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