We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.
Poor drug addicts around the world face a host of problems from stigma and imprisonment to lack of treatment, according to the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Many people with addictions can't access rehabilitation services, but if you're a celebrity like Charlie Sheen you can get treatment even if you don't currently have a drinking or drug problem.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will make grants to programs that provide substance abuse services to adolescents and their families/primary caregivers in geographic areas with unmet need.
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools will award $3.3 million in discretionary grants to programs working to reduce alcohol abuse among secondary-school students.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is now accepting applications for it 2011 Local Funding Partnerships Program, which works with local foundations and grantees to support original and promising projects that can improve the health of vulnerable populations.
Nominations are now being accepted for the Father Joseph C. Martin Award for Professional Excellence, which honors professionals in the addiction treatment field who embody Father Martin's philosophy and life's work.
Children exposed in-utero to cocaine often have lower IQs and do poorly in school and with language, but a new research review concludes that these impairments can usually be traced to the troubled environment the children of cocaine users live in and not directly to the effects of the drug itself.
Teens exposed to secondhand smoke have measurably thicker arteries than adolescents who are not exposed, suggesting that for children "even a little exposure to tobacco smoke may be harmful for blood vessels," according to researcher Katariina Kallio of the University of Turku in Finland.
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