| | WHo wins OBAMA or McLain | | cnn | No |
| | The University of Adelaide, Kings College London, and Virginia Commonwealth University have created the International Program in Addiction Studies, an online, 12-month intensive graduate program available to students from all countries. Applications are now being accepted.
| | adelaide | No |
| | NIDA Director, Nora Volkow meets with 100 students in Harlem for an open discussion. Visit NIDA's page on Drug Facts and watch the video. | | Publishing back | No |
| | Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Treatment Facility Locator is a searchable directory of drug and alcohol treatment programs across the country. | | dasis | No |
| | A resourceful study into the effect of third hand smoke upon the risk for genetic mutations in fruit flies won the top Addiction Science Award at this year's Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest science competition for high school students. | | http://www.drugabuse.gov/newsroom/09/NR5-15a.html | No |
| | The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, unveiled its first comprehensive Physicians' Outreach Initiative, NIDAMED, which gives medical professionals tools and resources to screen their patients for tobacco, alcohol, illicit, and nonmedical prescription drug use. | | http://www.drugabuse.gov/newsroom/09/NR4-20.html | No |
| | A randomized trial of Communities That Care (CTC), an evidence-based substance-use community-focused prevention system, showed significant reductions in the initiation of alcohol use, tobacco use, binge drinking, and delinquent behavior among middle schoolers as they progressed from the fifth through the eighth grades. The positive results, published in the Sept. 7 Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, demonstrate that community-based coalitions using customized evidence-based approaches can prevent the early initiation of substance abuse and delinquent behavior among youth. | | http://www.nida.nih.gov/newsroom/09/NR9-07.html | No |
| | Researchers have found in a mice study why and how the use of addictive drugs take control of reward signals and influence neural processes associated with learning and memory.
The study could help explain how drug-associated memories, such as the place of drug use, drive and perpetuate the addiction.
| | http://www.medindia.net/news/Scientists-Find-How-Addictive-Drugs-Influence-Learning-and-Memory-57954-1.htm | No |
| | Researchers have identified a key epigenetic mechanism in the brain that helps explain cocaine's addictiveness, according to research funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
| | http://www.nida.nih.gov/newsroom/10/NR1-07.html | No |
| | According to a report from the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a recent survey shows a "dramatic" increase in the number of older adults using illicit drugs, which "may require the doubling of substance abuse treatment services" for this population by 2020. And that survey didn't even include the legal drug — alcohol — which is the major substance-abuse problem for those 60 and older. | | http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100120/HEALTH/1200339/-1/SITEMAP | No |
| | With reports of increased prescription drug overdoses in emergency departments, the nation's emergency physicians are issuing a strong warning to parents about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs, which are now the second most abused drugs, after marijuana. Hospital visits caused by accidental and unintentional prescription drug overdoses went up 37 percent between 1999 and 2006, according to new data released by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. | | http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100413/Physicians-warn-parents-on-dangers-of-prescription-drug-abuse-among-children.aspx | No |
| | Alcohol abuse is a bigger problem for Pacific communities than drugs, according to an Australian report, which links drinking to domestic violence and wide-ranging health problems. The Burnet Institute survey, commissioned by the Australian National Council on Drugs, found that alcohol was the key area of concern in the Pacific, some of whose isolated communities are among the most impoverished in the world.
| | http://www.medindia.net/news/Alcohol-Abuse-Poses-a-Serious-Threat-Than-Drugs-in-Pacific-66574-1.htm | No |
| | QUEENSLAND has the highest number of illegal drug laboratories in the nation according to a disturbing report suggesting the drug culture is thriving rather than declining.
The report found 450 drug laboratories were uncovered in 2008-09, 148 in Queensland, while drug labs were overwhelmingly operating in residential areas.
| | http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/features/queensland-accounts-for-one-third-of-nations-uncovered-clandestine-drug-labs/story-fn2mcu0g-1225877179528 | Yes |
| | According to the research done at National Institute on Drug Abuse Rehabilitation (NIDA), there are certain mechanisms of the brain which are responsible for drug addiction results in excessive eating in most of such kinds of people. In other words, drug abuse and obesity are very much co-related to each other and the former leads to latter in people who are addicted to drugs. The research was carried out at Scripps Research Institute and would be available on leading book stores in the July edition of journal | | http://www.ukpressreleases.co.uk/Researchers-Found-Common-Link-between-Drug-Abuse-and-Obesity~123.htm | Yes |