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Today marks the launch of the second annual MusiCares and GRAMMY Foundation Teen Substance Abuse Awareness through Music Contest. Original music compositions or compositions with accompanying videos must be sent to MusiCares postmarked no later than Monday, Oct.10, 2011. Entries must be no more than three minutes long.
More information can be found on the National Drug Facts Week website: http://drugfactsweek.drugabuse.gov...
read moreThe deadline for the NLC Law Enforcement Award nominations deadline has been extended to May 15, 2011. Nomination packets may be mailed, emailed, or faxed to:
Don Piccone
Re: NLC Law Enforcement Award Nomination
UDETC/PIRE
11720 Beltsville Drive, Suite 900
Calverton, MD 20705
Piccone@pire.org
(301) 755-2799
Sending nominations by mail or email is preferred.
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The effects of nicotine on the parts of the brain involved with addiction are similar to the effects of cocaine, according to a study using rat brain tissue. The study found that one 15-minute exposure to nicotine caused a long-term increase in the excitability of nerve cells involved in reward.
According to Science Daily, the study suggests that nicotine and cocaine use...
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A new study suggests that Ecstasy use may be associated with long-term changes in the brain. The more Ecstasy a person uses, the greater the changes.
Medical News Today reports that researchers examined brain activity in people who had previously used Ecstasy and those who had never taken the drug. Brain...
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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...
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