The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) awarded a $1.1 million grant to the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) to provide support for states as they navigate the challenges and opportunities presented in the changing health and human services environment…
Conclusion: It may be worthwhile for administrators of violence programs to pay particular attention to substance abuse among their clients and in their community’s environment, especially if older persons are involved.
ABSTRACT Aims: Adolescents with substance use disorders (SUD) have difficulties with cognitive, behavioral and affective regulation. White matter (WM) disorganization has been observed in adolescents with SUD and may be related to psychological dysregulation. This study compared adolescents with SUD and control adolescents to investigate relationships among psychological dysregulation, WM disorganization, and SUD symptoms.
Almost a quarter of all youth that begin smoking, drinking or using drugs of any kind before the age of 18 go on to become severely addicted to some sort of drug in adulthood according to a new study released this week by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). As a matter of fact, 90% of drug addictions begin in high school…
Background: Within a ten year period South Africa has developed a substantial illicit drug market. Data on HIV risk among drug using populations clearly indicate high levels of HIV risk behaviour due to the sharing of injecting equipment and/or drug-related unprotected sex.
It’s a very difficult problem, because any other substance that caused this much harm would simply be banned. And we, as a society, have made the decision that we’re not going to ban tobacco. — Michael Siegel
Can some people react to certain foods the same way an alcoholic or addict gets “hooked” on their substance of choice? Yes, according to a new study that will appear in the August 2011 print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
ABSTRACT Aim: To investigate associations between cannabis use and subsequent receipt of social welfare assistance. Design, setting and participants: The Young in Norway Longitudinal Study.
Filed in Evidence Base, cannabis, crime, tobacco
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Also tagged consequences, crime, data-on-social, illegal, illegal-status, interactions, norway, research-should, tobacco
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Conclusion/Significance: These results suggest that mindfulness deficits may be common in the substance using population, that there may be sub-groups in which these deficits are more pronounced, and that they may be a suitable focus of SUD treatment. These findings lend support to the ongoing development of mindfulness-based treatments for SUDs, and suggest that particular sub-groups may benefit more than others
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged alcohol-abuse, benefit-more, clinical, deficits-may, findings-lend, more-pronounced, results-suggest, sub-groups-may, suitable-focus, the-ongoing, the-substance, their-clinical
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Abstract Aims To examine the associations between socioeconomic characteristics and driving under the influence of drugs (DUID), and to elaborate determinants of drugged driving.
Filed in Evidence Base
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Also tagged all-substance, analyses-were, driving-while, duid, educational, influence, main-activity, police, strongest, substance-use, the-strongest, using-logistic
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