Hundreds of organizations and events all over the country seek to make addiction more visible and less stigmatized this month. Image: Turning it around Photo via By Will Godfrey 09/01/11 |Share Hot on the heels of yesterday’s International Overdose Awareness Day comes the first day of September, AKA National Recovery Month—an observance instigated [...]
Sep 29, 2011 Time: On Demand Think of it as an hour filled with the answers to the questions you’ve always wanted to ask about coalitions, but haven’t. We’re going back to the basics, the fundamentals of what makes coalitions perfect vehicles for community-level change, what we need to know to be a meaningful partner [...]
By Leslie Reed WORLD-HERALD BUREAU « Metro/RegionShare Related News LINCOLN — A Willie Nelson concert would seem like a prime venue to collect signatures to legalize marijuana in Nebraska, because of the country singer’s well-known support of marijuana. But Nebraska State Fair officials have said no to allowing pot petitioning on the fairgrounds in Grand [...]
Aug 25, 2011 Drug type: Tobacco TIME magazine reported recently that big-name tobacco brands are ramping up their presence in the dissolvable tobacco game, and consumers in test markets, as well as regulators, are trying to figure out what make of the new products. In early 2011, in Colorado and North Carolina, R.J. Reynolds began [...]
Aug 25, 2011 Coalition resources: Data Analysis, Social Networking Drug type: Alcohol, Marijuana, Tobacco This week, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University released the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVI: Teens and Parents. This year’s survey reveals that teens who regularly use social networking sites are at [...]
The number of preteens and teens abusing prescription medications has skyrocketed. Every day, about 2,500 youth are trying their first painkiller (for a high). As parents, we wonder what goes through the minds of our children when they consider taking that first pill? According to youth themselves, here is what some of them report thinking: [...]
Federal regulators have been putting off the decision about whether to put tighter controls on the painkiller hydrocodone for many years, according to the Associated Press. Emergency room visits related to the drug, the key ingredient in Vicodin and other painkillers, have soared since 2000, the article notes. In 2009, more than 86,000 ER visits [...]
Smokers with drug, alcohol or mental disorders are five times as likely to quit smoking if they receive counseling from their primary care physician, a new study finds. About 40 percent of smokers have a drug, alcohol or mental disorder, Medical News Today reports. These smokers have a more difficult time than other smokers when [...]
