Hope this Helps: Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs with Smartphones?

Cameron Cole March 21, 2017

In this recent article, the New York Times asked a provocative question: has a recent decline in teen drug use come as the result of teens being addicted to their cell phones and social media?

Cameron Cole

Cameron Cole has been the Director of Youth Ministries at the Cathedral Church of the Advent since December of 2005, and in January of 2016 his duties expanded to include Children, Youth, and Families. He is the founding chairman of Rooted Ministry, an organization that promotes gospel-centered youth ministry. He is the co-editor of Gospel-Centered Youth Ministry: A Practice Guide (Crossway, 2016). Cameron is the author of Therefore, I Have Hope: 12 Truths that Comfort, Sustain, and Redeem in Tragedy (Crossway, 2018), which won World Magazine’s 2018 Book of the Year (Accessible Theology) and was runner up for The Gospel Coalition’s Book of the Year (First-Time Author). Cameron has a B.A. in Latin and English and an M.A. in Education, all from Wake Forest; he recently completed his Masters in Divinity from Reformed Theological Seminary.

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Hope this Helps: Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs with Smartphones?

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