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Warning letters from the federal government about medical marijuana laws have prompted several states to start reevaluating their laws, USA Today reports. The recent letters from U.S. attorneys indicate that people involved in the growing, dispensing and regulating of medical marijuana have the potential to be...
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Fourteen colleges and universities announced this week they have banded together to fight binge drinking. The institutions, including Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Boston University, Northwestern, Princeton and Stanford, plan to test and measure new strategies and share their results with other colleges.
The initiative, called the ...
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African American smokers are much more likely than Caucasians to use the counseling services of a California telephone tobacco quitline, according to a study that examined 18 years of calls.
In five out of six time periods studied, African Americans were between 44 and 140 percent more likely to call the quitline than Caucasians, the study found. Medical News Today reports that...
read morePacific County Health and Human Services has scheduled Class Action and Project Northland Program Trainings, May 25th, 26th, 27th in Long Beach, WA. See flyers below. Registrations are being taken for one or both of the trainings.
The training fee does not include the cost of curriculum materials. Registrations for the trainings received in the next week will be eligible for a 30 percent discount. Otherwise, registrants will need to order curriculum materials directly at...
read morePreventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders Among Young People: Progress and Possibilities
Mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders incur high psychosocial and economic costs for the young people who experience them, for their families, and for the society in which they live, study, and will work. Yet there is a significant imbalance in the nation's efforts to address such disorders.
People await their emergence and then attempt to treat them, to cure them if...
read moreThe federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently announced a new feature on their web page - "HRSA in your State."
The site offers, "...overviews of HRSA programs and current information, such as the number and amount of grants awarded down to the County level. It also provides state-specific information about health centers, National Health Service Corps members and the communities they serve, and the number of participating providers through...
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Seeking to assist the growing number of health facilities that have made their properties completely smoke-free, The Joint Commission has released a guide designed to help facilities that face enforcement challenges once their tobacco-free policies have taken effect.
Keeping Your Hospital Property Smoke-Free, available for free download via The Joint Commission's website, ...
read moreGeneral Arthur Dean, Chairman and CEO of Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA), has announced the launch of the 2011 CADCA Got Outcomes! Coalitions of Execellence Awards program.
"Please see the attached notification regarding the launch of the 2011 CADCA Got Outcomes! Coalitions of Excellence Awards program. CADCA is currently seeking model coalitions to apply for one of these awards. One way that CADCA would like to reach out to coalitions this year is through...
read moreBy Vanessa Ho, SeattlePI.COM Staff
Parents who let their kids drink when supervised - because they think it's safer than an outright ban on underage drinking - may want to rethink their approach due to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.
Co-authored by University of Washington professor Richard Catalano, the study...
read moreInhaling fear: Scare Tactics Don't Work
By Martin Lindstrom NY Times Published online: Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Ten years ago, in settling the largest civil lawsuit in American history, Big Tobacco agreed to pay the 50 states $246 billion, which they've used in part to finance efforts to prevent smoking. The percentage of American adults who smoke has fallen since then to just over 20 percent from nearly 30 percent, but smoking is still the No. 1...
read moreConducting Compliance Check Operations - Online Training
The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center (UDETC) now offers a four-hour online training that provides basic guidelines and operational information on reducing sales of alcohol to underage purchasers through compliance investigations of alcohol retailers.
The course presents rationales for carrying out these investigations and emphasizes the importance of reducing youth access to alcohol thereby reducing youth...
read moreThe program's goal is to replicate programs such as the Boston Gun Project, the Richmond Comprehensive Homicide Initiative and the Chicago CeaseFire model, to reduce violence in targeted communities. Applicants must target their proposed intervention on the high-risk activities and behaviors of a small number of carefully selected members of the community who are likely to be involved in violent activities, specifically gun violence, in the immediate future.
The intervention with...
read moreChildren and teens who breathe in secondhand smoke are more likely to develop symptoms of mental health problems including major depressive disorder and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, a new study finds.
Health problems stemming from secondhand smoke have been well documented. These include asthma, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and ear infections. But until now, the link between secondhand smoke and mental health has not been well studied.
The...
read moreThe Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has issued a call for applications for its 2011 Science and Service Awards, a national program that recognizes community-based organizations and coalitions that have shown exemplary implementation of evidence-based mental health and substance abuse interventions.
Awards will be made in each of the five categories: substance abuse prevention, treatment of substance abuse and recovery support services, mental health...
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