News tagged with drug abuse prevention
Teen drug education also helps curb risky sexual behavior, study finds
Apr 29, 2009 |
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School-based drug education programs for adolescents can have a long-term positive impact on sexual behavior in addition to curbing substance abuse, according to a new RAND Corporation study.
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Plays promote prevention of drug abuse
Apr 05, 2007 |
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A new study finds that theatrical drama is an educational tool in the fight against drug addiction and abuse. Research published today in Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy, shows that after watching the play ...
Stigma increases likelihood that drug users reoffend
May 08, 2009 |
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Punitive policies intended to reduce drug use by making life difficult for convicted users are counterproductive and actually lead to a vicious spiral of drug use and reincarceration. Research published in BioMed Central's ...
Drama can help educate and motivate, research shows
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 30, 2007 |
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Drama certainly has the power to entertain, but can it also change behavior? A play about substance abuse was successful at prompting audience members to participate in substance abuse prevention activities, according to ...
Female sex offenders often have mental problems
May 14, 2008 |
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Women who commit sexual offences are just as likely to have mental problems or drug addictions as other violent female criminals. This according to the largest study ever conducted of women convicted of sexual offences in ...
State policies influence drug treatment programs
Jun 25, 2008 |
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Philadelphia, PA, June 25, 2007 – State policies have a significant impact on the services performed by substance abuse treatment programs, and could play a key role in efforts to expand the use of research-based "comprehensive" ...
Abuse of painkillers can predispose adolescents to lifelong addiction
Sep 10, 2008 |
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No child aspires to a lifetime of addiction. But their brains might. In new research to appear online in the journal Neuropsychopharmacology this week, Rockefeller University researchers reveal that adolescent brains expose ...
Easily led 'ash-tray': Adolescent smokers prone to drug abuse
Dec 11, 2009 |
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It is common knowledge that smoking is a health risk but why do teens become addicted to smoking more easily than adults? In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000 Biology, Neil Grunberg looks into why adolescents are more prone ...
Family life can lead to cannabis disorders
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One in five young people experience a cannabis use disorder, according to a UQ and Mater Hospital study published today in the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse.
Substance use common among patients with TB, associated with treatment difficulties
Jan 26, 2009 |
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About one in five U.S. tuberculosis patients reports abusing alcohol or using illicit drugs, and those who do appear more contagious and difficult to treat, according to a report in the January 26 issue of Archives of In ...
New approach needed to tackle child abuse and neglect
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 25, 2008 |
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Leading child advocates have called for a new approach to tackling child abuse and neglect amid rising rates of abuse notifications and children being brought into State care. The arguments for a new approach are set out ...
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