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shared by Giang V on 19 Aug 11 - No Cached

Name registration delays Amy Winehouse foundation
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Amy Winehouse's father Mitch has said his plans to launch a foundation in his daughter's name have been delayed.
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'The Amy Winehouse Foundation' has been registered by someone else.
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don't know what to do with them at the moment."
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donations
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"hold off" on his plans "for the time being".
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"The plan is to help all children - not just rehabilitation, not just substance abuse. It's to help all children in need."
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Amy's father had announced his plans to set up a foundation in his daughter's name at the singer's funeral in London on 27 July.
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He added that the 27-year-old had "conquered" her drug addiction before her death but had been "trying hard to deal with her drinking".
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She was found dead at her home in north London on 24 July.
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shared by Ho Sung Han on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached

intriguing e-mail
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The center does an annual survey on teen attitudes toward drinking and drug use.
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National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
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This year’s report found something new and alarming: Teens who regularly use Facebook and Myspace are much more likely than social network avoiders to drink, smoke and use marijuana.
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Maybe a kid has a parent who drinks heavily or uses drugs, or lives in a neighborhood where such things are commonplace.
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shared by Hye Rin Bae on 25 Aug 11 - No Cached

That’s the kind of Facebook status update making American teens more likely to drink and take drugs, according to a phone survey of 1,037 teens by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
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Teens who use social media are five times likelier to smoke, three times likelier to use alcohol and twice as likely to use marijuana than those who don’t, the survey found.
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It warns that viewing photos of kids passed out drunk or lighting up a joint on social media sites has an even greater impact on teens.
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Forty per cent of teens said they were exposed to such images, half of them before they were 13. This group were also more able to procure weed or prescription drugs and four times more likely to smoke up.
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Parents were skeptical, according to the survey. Of a phone poll of 536 parents, a majority said they did not think social media made their child more likely to drink or use marijuana.
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