Kids in High-Achieving Schools: Addiction Down the Road?

Guest: Suniya Luthar, Foundation Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University, Professor Emerita, Columbia University, Teachers College Kids from upper middle-class homes would seem like the last group we need to worry about as a society. They’re not dealing with hunger, poverty or lack of basic healthcare. They go to the best high schools and most elite colleges.  But young people from this very group are a new focus of public health officials because their drug and alcohol abuse rates are two to three times higher than the national norm.