Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
All of these interventions addressed general risk and protective factors for substance abuse rather than specifically targeting prescription drug abuse. In follow-up questionnaires and telephone interviews completed at 17-25 years of age, students …
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C. Everett Koop, Forceful US Surgeon General, Dies at 96
In two cases involving infants, identified as Baby Doe and Baby Jane Doe, those who favored government intervention to save a disabled child were pitted against liberals, libertarians and medical groups who argued that parents had the right to withhold …
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Effective Addiction Treatment
Find out if you will receive therapy for any underlying condition, like depression, or a social problem that could sabotage recovery. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states in its Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment, “To be effective, treatment …
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Source: Dr. Drew went 'above and beyond' trying to help Mindy McCready
According to the National Institutes of Health: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment, 40 to 60 percent of drug-addicted patients suffer a relapse following rehabilitation treatment. However, not everyone agrees that “Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew …
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Conservatives are leading on prison reform
However, conservative criminal justice policy today is charting a new course that is more consistent with the traditional conservative principles of limited government and personal responsibility. In conservative … Research shows that strategies such …
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Workshop on Drug Awareness and Drug Abuse Prevention Held in Afghanistan

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A training workshop on drug awareness and drug abuse prevention for non-governmental organization’s female workers was held in Jalalabad, sponsored by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). 24/May/2006. UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Local Advocate Attends National Drug Abuse Prevention Conference
Logandale resident Debbie Oglesby, a representative of the Nevada Community Prevention Coalition, recently traveled to the Washington, D.C. area to join more than 2,000 substance abuse prevention specialists and advocates from throughout the country …
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Peoria County Coalition Aimed to Stop Drug Abuse
In 2012, there were 32 drug-related deaths in Peoria County. For Coroner Johnna Ingersoll, even one is too many. She said, "Those numbers are concerning to me." Ingersoll is leading the substance abuse prevention coalition and with it, she hopes to …
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Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
The research, published today in the American Journal of Public Health, was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and the National Institute of Mental Health, all components of …
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Prevention efforts focused on youth reduce prescription abuse into adulthood
All of these interventions addressed general risk and protective factors for substance abuse rather than specifically targeting prescription drug abuse. In follow-up questionnaires and telephone interviews completed at 17-25 years of age, students …
Read more on National Institutes of Health (press release)

Moorpark panel says early intervention key to curbing drug abuse
Drugs are becoming a problem in Moorpark and in surrounding cities, and drug prevention among youths is the key. That was the main message from a panel of law enforcement officials and a medical expert who spoke during a drug forum Wednesday night …
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