But Manka began thinking about it more as an addiction problem, and less of a behaviour issue, after seeing the two players from another school vaping near their bus. “It broke my heart,” said Manka, whose school is now exploring how to offer cessation programs for students caught vaping or with vaping paraphernalia. Schools elsewhere have been wrestling with how to balance discipline with prevention and treatment in their response to the soaring numbers of vaping students. Last year, one in five U.S. high school students reported vaping the previous month, according to a CDC survey. “They need help, treatment, counselling, support, education and understanding.”Dr. J. Craig Allen, medical director at Rushford, a mental health treatment centre in Meriden, said suspending teens for vaping may be counterproductive.

Source: National Post May 26, 2019 13:18 UTC