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Teen girls coping with drugs, alcohol, sexting
(CNN) – If you have teenagers, the list of things to worry about seems to grow longer every day. It can be even more stressful if you have a teenage daughter.
Research shows more girls than ever are taking anti-depressants, using alcohol and even drinking and driving. Technology is adding new problems with things like Internet bullying and sexting.
Dr. Leonard Sax has a new book on all of this, "Girls on the Edge." Our Kiran Chetry had the chance to talk with him and ask, "Why are so many teenage girls in such trouble?"
Teen fights prescription addiction
In March, we gave you a frightening look inside an 18-year-old's battle with a dangerous cocktail of prescription drugs that nearly ended her life. Today, our Kiran Chetry goes back to visit Melissa to see whether or not she's serious about getting clean. Tomorrow on American Morning, Melissa takes us inside her new world of sobriety. We'll show you the challenges she faces – old habits and old friendships that could pull her back into addiction.
By Kiran Chetry, CNN
(CNN) – We first met 18-year-old Melissa a month ago. She’s a self-described addict of prescription drugs.
“My mother's prescribed Xanax. … I began taking them as well, and um, it was just kind of like an immediate comfort from them,” she says.
Melissa and her best friend, who didn't want us to use her name, told us snorting crushed up pills was a daily habit.
“I wouldn't really say that I'm addicted, like I've been on and off.”
Melissa's cousin Adam, now sober, says he overdosed 15 times before getting clean.
“It's just like, you need it, and you don't want to do anything else and you don't care about anything else and you spend every last penny you have on it, just to have that feeling and for me that was immediate,” he says.
The arrest of Faisal Shahzad
(CNN) – The White House says there's now evidence that the Pakistani Taliban, a group said to have close ties with al Qaeda, was behind the botched bomb plot in Times Square. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Justice Department hopes to find a money trail leading straight to the suspect, Faisal Shahzad.
To talk more about the arrest, we were joined on Monday's American Morning by three men from U.S. Customs and Border Protection who were called into action the night Shahzad was arrested.
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Kagan to be Supreme Court nominee, source says
(CNN) – President Obama is on Monday expected to name Solicitor General Elena Kagan as his nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, two sources close to the process said.
The announcement at the White House is expected around mid-morning
Kagan, 50, a New York native, was widely reported to be the front-runner for the nomination. She was a finalist for the high court vacancy last year when Justice Sonia Sotomayor was selected to replace the retiring David Souter.
If confirmed, Kagan would be the third woman on the nine-justice bench and the fourth in the history of the court.
Kagan received her law degree from Harvard University, where she later served as dean of the law school. She previously served in the Clinton administration as associate White House counsel. Read more
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Former NFL star's personal troubles
(CNN) – Pro football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor has had a troubled past that in many ways overshadowed his success on the field. Now, he's charged with third degree rape for allegedly having sex with a 16-year-old prostitute.
Max Kellerman from HBO Sports and Pablo Torre from Sports Illustrated joined us on Friday's American Morning to discuss the sports star's personal troubles.
NJ facility creates cleanup techniques
(CNN) – Crews are lowering a massive concrete containment dome to the ocean floor today, trying to cover a ruptured well that's spewing thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf each day. It's one of many techniques conceived and tested at a naval base in New Jersey. Cameras have never been allowed inside the "Oil Spill Research and Training Facility," until now. Our Allan Chernoff has the CNN exclusive report.
Read more: Dome lowered at Gulf oil leak site
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