Sunday, August 16th, 2009
In a previous post we talked about the ineffectiveness of the school-based substance abuse prevention program called D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education). We reported data from a meta-analysis of 11 studies which showed no significant effect of D.A.R.E. in reducing drug use. A recently published study examined the effectiveness of ...
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
22.9 million Americans report trying inhalants at least once in their lives.
When it comes to drug use problems, inhalants are often the first drugs that young children decide to experiment with. The habit is often called huffing. While use of alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy, and other drugs peaks around ...
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Friday, July 24th, 2009
Here are some drug use statistics:
Over 80% of adolescents engage in some form of deviant behavior (1).
Over 50% of high-school seniors admit to having used drugs (2).
Only 10%-15% of the population develop drug addiction problems related to their drug use (1).
The question is:
If the majority of teens experiment ...
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Monday, July 13th, 2009
In looking up some numbers for a recent post I put up on TakePart, I uncovered some amazing addiction and drug abuse statistics (most from 2007, so they're probably higher by now).
Addiction statistics highlights:
Slightly more than half of Americans surveyed indicated that they are current drinkers (I thought it'd be ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Co-authored by: Jamie Felzer
Anyone involved with the dance/rave/club culture knows that drugs often go hand in hand with music and dancing. Back whenI was an active participant, club drugs, as well as alcohol and drug abuse, were rampant in my social group full of excited club goers. Previous academic studies ...
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Saturday, June 27th, 2009
So,
We've talked about the general way in which neurons in the brain communicate with one another and then reviewed the ways in which cocaine messes some of the basic processes that the brain depends on.
It's time to move on to another drug, and since the brain-addiction connection is similar for ...
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Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Parents are always looking for help on how to parent when it comes to teens and drugs. Well, the new tool from drugfree.org, called Time To Act, may provide just the help parents want.
The tool has seperate sections for parents who fear their kids may be trying drugs or for ...
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