School stress affected by gender
Boys react differently to girls when it comes to dealing with stress at school, according to a study by the Academy of Finland.
Police struggle to stop teenage dial-a-drink service
Stockholm police have admitted they are making little progress in quelling the phenomenon known as “vodka-mobile”, which sees teens ordering alcohol d...
Finland stubs out smoking with world’s toughest law
Finland has this week enacted the strictest anti-smoking laws in the world, which aim to phase out the habit altogether by preventing teenagers from e...
Young Danes dying from alcohol abuse
A new study has confirmed the image of heavy drinking Danes, with reports of 25 youths dying from alcohol abuse since 2002.
One in four Danish children referred to Psychologist
Medical experts and Danish council members have claimed that the number of children being sent for psychological evaluation is exceedingly high.
Danish Liberals call for abolition of minimum criminal age
The Danish Liberal Party’s spokeswoman for social affairs Ellen Trane Norby has called for the minimum age of criminal liability to be done away with ...
Two Stockholm teens murder peer
The June murder of a 15 year-old girl in a wooded area near the Stockholm suburb of Stureby has been officially attributed to her two teen friends ove...
Danish teen girls prefer painkillers for suicide
Figures just released from Denmark’s National Patient Registry indicate a substantial rise in the number of teenage girls who have been admitted to ho...