Click here to return to book details FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Email: publicity@regnery.com Phone: 202-216-0600 ONE OUT OF EVERY FOUR SEXUALLY ACTIVE TEENS IS INFECTED WITH AN STD Ex-Birth Control Advocate Speaks Out on this Epidemic A quarter of the teen population in this country and the number of sexually active teens continues to increase. Every day, 8,000 teens become infected with an STD. This year alone, up to 4 million of those infected with STDs will be teenagers. Sexually transmitted diseases are at an all-time high in our nation — and this epidemic is killing our kids. Bottom line: condoms are not adequately protecting our teens. Dr. Meg Meeker, author of EPIDEMIC (LifeLine Press; Pub Date: October 15, 2002; Price: $24.95; ISBN: 0-89526-143-x), has been on the frontline of this outbreak for more than 20 years and sees STDs affect a quarter of her sexually active patients in her suburban neighborhood in Michigan. EPIDEMIC is the story of how STDs are running rampant and wreaking havoc among our teens. Today, over 50 different sexually transmitted diseases exist. One such STD, Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) causes 99.7% of all cervical cancer and another STD, herpes, has skyrocketed nearly 500% among teens since 1980. Dr. Meeker includes real-life stories of teens facing infections and infertility, and details the threat and misconception of these diseases, including: Condoms - Don’t adequately protect our kids. In a recent report by the National Institutes of Health, it was proven that condoms do not definitively reduce the risk of contracting viral STDs (other than HIV). The Teen Body - An adolescent girl is more physically immature and therefore more susceptible to STDs than an adult woman Confusion - Teens don’t consider oral sex as “real sex.” In a national survey, 1 out of every 5 teens reported that oral sex is safe sex EPIDEMIC explores the patterns of political correctness and marketing hype that have caused this tidal wave of disease. Dr. Meeker explains how parents and other adult figures can properly take initiative to reverse the damage to our nation’s teens. For two decades, Dr. Meg Meeker fought the battle of teen pregnancy and crusaded for safe sex by dispensing condoms to adolescent patients. Although she succeeded, she realized that she - like thousands of other physicians - had been horribly misguided in her single-minded approach when her teen patients began marching in with horrible sexually transmitted diseases. Today, she counsels both teens and parents on the medical importance of waiting to have sex. Dr. Meeker is on the National Advisory Board of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health and is a popular national speaker on teen health issues.   Click here to order from Amazon: Click here to return to book details