Adolescents from rural areas are four times more likely to smoke cigarettes frequently or ride in a car with an intoxicated driver than youth from urban regions, according to a recently released report by researchers at the University of California. Read more...

Amid the implementation of recent federal drug testing legislation and new proposals by President Bush to increase drug tests for high school students, the majority of students and employees at UCLA are bucking the recent trends. Read more...

For the thousands of students living on campus, Student Health Advocates, or SHAs, may not be the right people to go to for emergencies involving drug or alcohol abuse. Read more...

Some students drink for kicks; others drink to relax. But still others drink because they cannot keep themselves from it. Though it may not have started as an addiction, there are many students who have fallen into the snares of alcoholism or other substance dependency. Read more...

Several UCLA graduates will join thousands of graduates across the country who have decided to take the problem of educational inequity into their own hands. There are hopes that close to 200 Bruins will become educators next fall by participating in Teach for America, a federal educational program geared toward teaching low-income students. Read more...

Twenty-four years ago today, the citizens of Iran experienced a major political upheaval: The progressive, secular government of the Shah was replaced by the far more rigid and conservative government of Ayatollah Khomeini. Read more...

The Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center increased its prices for birth control for the third time in one year. As of Feb. 1, the Ashe Center now divides contraception into three price tiers: $12, $28 and $45. Read more...