More Danish teenagers are being hospitalised after mixing drink and drugs at parties. Read the full story

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 ever lighting up. The legislation, which was put into force on Friday 1st October, seeks to make the country smoke-free by limiting the availability and visibility of tobacco products rather than an outright ban. Read the full story

A new study has confirmed the image of heavy drinking Danes, with reports of 25 youths dying from alcohol abuse since 2002. Read the full story

Icelandic teenagers are more content now in the midst of a recession than they were in the boom years. This is the conclusion of a new research report which indicates that parent-child relationships seem to have improved since the economic crisis began. Read the full story

Medical experts and Danish council members have claimed that the number of children being sent for psychological evaluation is exceedingly high. Read the full story

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 and instead replaced with a juvenile court system. Read the full story

An ever-growing number of Danish children are deemed to be suffering from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), and along with the increased number of diagnoses there has been a huge rise in both prescriptions and medication dosages. Read the full story

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 over a lovers’ quarrel. Read the full story

Figures just released from Denmark’s National Patient Registry indicate a substantial rise in the number of teenage girls who have been admitted to hospital due to overdosing on painkillers. The trend has been steadily increasing in recent years, rising seven percent alone since 2007. Read the full story

A big reduction has been noted in the number of 17 and 18 year-old drivers in Iceland breaking traffic laws since a new law took effect offering driving bans and compulsory extra training to lawbreakers on provisional driving licences.

MBL.is reports that the findings were revealed at a meeting and press conference held jointly by the Public Health Institute of Iceland and Traffic Administration.

The laws on driving bans and special extra training came into force on 27 April last year and the Traffic Administration says that the results have surpassed even optimistic expectations.

According to law it is possible to ban a driver on a provisional licence if his/her conduct is at odds with the law and the rules of the road, or if Read the full story