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The U.S. Senate passed a bill outlawing synthetic drugs this week, and awaits President Obama’s signature, The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012 bans drugs such as “bath salts” and synthetic marijuana at the federal level.
“Widely available and easy to purchase synthetic drugs have taken a dangerous toll on American families and communities. My amendment to ban these drugs at...
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Lung cancer deaths are rising among women born after 1950 in the South and Midwest, according to a new study. Cigarette advertising aimed at women in the 1960s and 1970s may have contributed to the increase, the researchers say. Overall, lung cancer deaths in the United States have been decreasing, according to HealthDay.
Women who were adolescents and young adults in the 1960s and 1970s were encouraged to smoke through Virginia Slims ads that...
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A new study finds prescription painkiller abuse jumped 75 percent between 2002 and 2010. Men and adults ages 26 to 49 were most likely to abuse prescription painkillers.
Bloomberg News reports the study is the first to examine who is likely to abuse prescription painkillers, and how often it occurs. The study found more than 15,000 people overdosed on painkillers and died in 2009—more than double the number in 2002.
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The Social Media Shift
Hashtags, tweets, pinning, tagging – it can be overwhelming just learning the lingo of social networking, let alone developing an effective plan for using social media as a tool for digital advocacy. But here at the Community Tool Box, we recognize that social media is a dynamic tool that can transform a community organization or grassroots movement. With this in mind, we have just published a new section on...
read moreIn observance of June as PTSD Awareness Month, the Department of Veterans Affairs National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has begun a new online initiative, AboutFace, focused on helping Veterans recognize PTSD symptoms and motivating them to seek treatment.
“We must do all we can to help Veterans identify possible indicators that they may be suffering from PTSD,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “It requires a...
About 50 percent of all people who live to age 65 will develop at least one form of skin cancer
Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer occurring in the United States. It is also the most rapidly increasing cancer.
For the past 30 years skin cancers have been increasing by about three percent each year.
One out of every five people in the U.S. will develop skin cancer sometime during his or her life. It is estimated that about 50 percent of all people who live to...
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A national ad campaign, called “Tips From Former Smokers,” doubled the volume of calls to a nationwide smoking cessation hotline, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The campaign generated almost 200,000 additional calls to the hotline over 12 weeks.
The campaign, which features people living with the effects of smoking-related diseases, appears to be even more successful than the government had hoped,...
WASAVP has posted a Marijuana Policy Community Education Toolkit to its website to support the work of substance abuse...
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Use of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children jumped 46 percent from 2002 to 2010, according to a new report in the journal Pediatrics. Ritalin was the top drug prescribed for teenagers, with more than four million prescriptions filled in 2010.
“What the article is suggesting is that the number of children that we are treating for attention deficit disorder has gone up,” said Dr. Scott Benson, a...
About 8 percent of U.S. teens meet current criteria for having a serious emotional disturbance, according to two NIMH-funded studies published in the April 2012 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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The rate of bipolar symptoms among U.S. teens is nearly as high as the rate found among adults, according to NIMH-funded research published online ahead of print on May 7, 2012, in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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