Features the question-and-answer format of the "Health Freak" series ("Sex", "Drugs"), based on genuine questions emailed by kids to the authors' award-winning health advice website (teenagehealthfreak.org). Frank, down-to-earth answers are given by the authors, both of whom are doctors specializing in teenage health issues.

He is now an international freelance consultant in child and adolescent health. Ann Mcpherson is a general practitioner with extensive experience of young people and their problems, and a lecturer in the Department of Primary Health Care at the University of Oxford. "Teenage Health Freak" titles include: "The Diary of a Teenage Health Freak"; "The Diary of the Other Health Freak"; "RU a Teenage Health Freak?"; "Health Freak: Sex"; and "Health Freak: Drugs". The authors' other books include: "Mum I Feel Funny" (which won the Times Education Supplement Information Book Award), "Me and My Mates", "The Virgin Now Boarding", and "Fresher Pressure". Most recently, they published a book for parents about the teenage years called "Teenagers: The Agony, The Ecstasy, The Answers".

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