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Wow! We can't imagine what kind of uproar this caused at PTA meetings.

In Philadelphia, almost a third of their high schools are getting free condom dispensers installed!!

Before you start questioning why they'd do that… five percent of the city's high school students tested positive for STDs!!

Some even had HIV!!

So this sounds like a really really important idea to us.

A school district spokesman said:

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What have YOU done lately??

This is such an inspiration!

A Chinese man who lost his legs when he was a teenager climbed Mount Hua, using just his hands!

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Ken Baumann, an actor on ABC's The Secret Life of the American Teenager, is currently fighting Chron's disease.

Chron's causes inflammation all throughout the digestive tract.

Ken said:

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Don't you hate it when you have a splitting headache and it turns out to be a 3-foot long fishing spear?

No amount of aspirin can ever really take the edge off.

Plus, you end up having to get it removed, and that can be costly.

That's exactly what happened to a Miami teenager, who is now walking and talking

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It's weird that synthetic marijuana exists when regular pot is probably much easier to get.

But that isn't stopping teens — and it just sent 3 of them to the hospital with altered mental states and seriously elevated heart rates.

Here's what happened:

A 16-year-old girl was brought in by her boyfriend — and she refused to move or speak and did not respond when doctors rubbed her chest hard or pinched her! Her pulse was 105… and she was lying down.

She had smoked something called K2 which is a synthetic, and she had smoked marijuana as well. She (of course) tested positive for THC.

The synthetics were only recently banned in the U.S. and the Drug Enforcement Administration and there is a movement to classify them permanently as schedule 1 controlled substances. Like heroin.

So what are they exactly? They're blends of herbs and spices laced with cannabis-like chemicals… and they're believed to be much stronger than regular pot.

Here's what a doctor had to say:

"Because it's unregulated we don't know exactly what's in it. If people were getting the effects that they wanted they probably wouldn't be calling the poison control center. Anytime your teenager is acting abnormally or having aggressive agitation you should certainly seek medical attention."

Scary!

Why are kids so stupid??

What part of any of this makes sense??

At least pot is all natural! Jeez!!

[Image via AP Images.]

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Ugh! Such a sad story, but thankfully it has a happy ending.

2009's Miss America winner Kirsten Haglund is a true inspiration to anyone who has ever suffered from an eating disorder because she not only beat one as a teenager, but went on to use her pageant success as a means of helping others struggling with same issues.

Her descent into anorexia began at just 12-years-old after falling victim to

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No one likes their most personal secrets being spilled, but in Christina Ricci's case, one of the most horrifying experiences of her adolescence ended up making the rest of her life a lot better!

The actress and former child star told the UK edition of Marie Claire in the April issue that growing up in front of the cameras was tough. One of the most difficult moments of her childhood was when someone outed her for having an eating disorder AFTER she had received treatment, explaining

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