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Teens and Prescription Drugs: An Analysis of Recent Trends on the Emerging Drug Threat

Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) This report combines data from national studies and published reports to show trends in illegal...

News

FY 2008 Federal Drug Budget: Prevention Funding Continues to Decline

Carnevale Associates Spending on federal anti-drug programs will decline under the Bush administration’s 2008 proposed drug-control budget – reflecting a decline in...

News

Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration The agencies behind this report...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Healing Parents: Helping Wounded Children Learn to Trust and Love

Michael Orlans and Terry M. Levy CWLA Press 304 pages. $34.95. A guide for parents and residential caregivers who are trying to...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Massive Sex Offender Database Created

The National Center on Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) received an unexpected windfall last month when MySpace gave the group access to...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

Rosco Kickingstone, GLBTQ Peer Outreach Worker

Rosco Kickingstone Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets, Seattle (206) 726-8500 http://www.psks.org Age: 21 Salary: $8.50 an hour About...

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Preventing Teen Motor Crashes: Contributions from the Behavioral and Social Sciences: Workshop Report

The National Academies This report summarizes presentations and discussions from a workshop where participants from various disciplines gathered to explore how the...

News

Regulating Teenage Abortion in the United States: Politics and Policy

International Journal of Law, Policy, and the Family More than three decades after Roe v. Wade, there is little constitutional wiggle room...

Research

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Youth: An Epidemic of Homelessness

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Policy Institute and the National Coalition for the Homeless Available at: http://www.thetaskforce.org/reports_and_research/homeless_youth It’s a statistic that...

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The Clinical Assessment of Children and Adolescents

Edited by Steven Smith and Leonard HandlerLawrence Erlbaum Associates628 pages. $95. A handbook for clinicians working with younger populations that outlines the...

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The Last Normal Child: Essays on the Intersection of Kids, Culture, and Psychiatric Drugs

Lawrence Diller Praeger Publishers150 pages. $39.95. This collection of essays for health professionals discusses the psychiatric diagnosis and medical treatment of emotional...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier

The Shyness Home Page

http://www.shyness.com Sponsored by the Shyness Institute, Los Altos, Calif., the site gathers resources for those seeking information and services regarding shyness. It...

Grants

Grants Awarded for December 2006 – January 2007

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services200 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201(202) 619-0257www.hhs.govSee: Compassion Capitol Fund FY 2006 (pdf) U.S. Substance...

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Report Roundup for December 2006 – January 2007

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

News

Report Roundup for November 2006

A compilation of the reports from this issue.

Research

Research of Note for November 2006

Rebuilding Families, Reclaiming Lives: State Obligations to Children in Foster Care and Their Incarcerated Parents The Brennan Center for Justice at New...

Opinion

The Ugly Euginics of ‘Teen Pregnancy Prevention’

Gary Yates, president of The California Wellness Foundation, recently mischaracterized teen pregnancy, invoked destructive stereotypes that brand poorer mothers’ babies as “social...

Archives: 2014 & Earlier