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Are smartphones driving teenagers away from drugs?

<p>Adolescents in the US may be using less drugs because they are constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and smartphones, experts say</p>

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Are smartphones driving teenagers away from drugs?

New York: Adolescents in the US may be using less drugs because they are constantly stimulated and entertained by their computers and smartphones, experts say.

"There is a possibility that smartphones are contributing to a decline in drug use among teenagers," Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse -- a part of National Institutes of Health -- in Maryland, US was quoted as saying to nytimes.com.

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