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Substance Abuse Treatment in Adult and Juvenile Correctional Facilities: Findings from the Uniform Facility Data Set, 1997 Survey of Correctional Facilities

This report presents the findings from a survey of all adult and juvenile correctional facilities nationwide regarding substance abuse treatment service provided...

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Reducing the Risk: Connections That Make a Difference in the Lives of Youth

Who has the most emotional stress? Older teens, rural youth, welfare recipients and Native American youth. Who is most at risk for...

Opinion

Two-Fisted Double Standards

It is the season when grownups wax hysterical and hypocritical on “teenage drinking.” After years of work in school drug/alcohol programs and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Anti-Alcohol Campaign Targets Younger Youth

In response to evidence that Americans are beginning to drink at younger ages, anti-alcohol forces are shifting their prevention efforts to younger...

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Protection as Prevention: Contraception for Sexually Active Teens

This report bears relatively good tidings about U.S. teen pregnancy: Teen sexual activity, pregnancy and birth rates have all declined since 1990....

Research

Drug Court Results: Positive But Spotty

Now that nearly 3,000 youths have gone to juvenile drug courts and the U.S. Justice Department has spent more than $16 million...

News

Anti-Huffing Programs Work, Then Get Cut

By Amy Bracken It’s the third most popular drug in middle school and it can kill on first use. Yet parents and...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Supreme Court Strips FDA Youth Tobacco Regs

In a 5-4 ruling last month the Supreme Court dismantled the Clinton administration’s tough teenage anti-smoking campaign by stripping away the U.S....

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State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use

In 1997 the National Cancer Policy Board, a joint program of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council (which is...

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Dangerous Liaisons: Substance Abuse and Sex

National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) Teens who drink are seven times more likely to have sexual...

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Millennium Hangover: Keeping Score on Alcohol Drug Strategies

This report on the impact of alcohol abuse examines drinking from several perspectives, including public health, criminal justice, the workplace, treatment and...

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The Right Start: Conditions of Babies and Their Families in America’s Largest Cities

Annie E. Casey Foundation Babies born in the nation’s 50 largest cities are likely to start life at a significant disadvantage compared...

Research

Adolescents Take Risks With AIDS Complacency Feeds Rampant Sexual Risk Taking

Todd ZwillichPediatric News October 1999 Teenage gay and bisexual boys are risking their lives by ignoring safe sex, according to interviews conducted...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier

Teen Drug Abuse Decline Pauses

With some exceptions, overall drug abuse among American adolescents held steady during 1999, according to “Monitoring the Future,” the ongoing study by...

Opinion

‘Tobacco-Free’ Haze

In a dozen years of working with kids, I saw the same scenes a hundred times: parents, family friends, relatives and teenagers...

Research

The Impact of Marijuana

Policy Statement of the American Academy of PediatricsReprinted in Pediatrics, October 1999 and AAP News, October 1999Available free at www.aap.org/policy/re9915.html or for $5...

News

McCaffrey’s Anti-Drug Campaign Caught in Crossfire

Described as the largest media buy in history for a public health issue, national drug czar Barry McCaffrey’s $185-million-a-year anti-drug campaign is...

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Teenage Sex Rate Does Not Increase With Condom Use

By Jennifer Gauck A new study published in the American Journal of Public Health contends that distributing condoms in school does not increase rates...

News Briefs: Archives 2011 & Earlier