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• Early Drinking Linked To Higher Lifetime Alcoholism Risk
  7/14/2006 - Representatives from Newtown's Family Counseling Center as well as a national authority who appeared here recently speaking about substance abuse are pointing to a recent study that further confirms t...
  
  
• Genetic tendency to drug abuse seen in study
  7/14/2006 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A study conducted in Norway provides more evidence that genetic factors may play an important role in the use of drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. According to study ...
  
  
• Study: Women More Vulnerable To Substance Abuse
  7/14/2006 - More than 20 million women and girls are addicted to drugs and alcohol, with another 30 million addicted to nicotine. Traditionally thought of as a male dominated problem, new research from Columbia U...
  
  
• Facing the grim facts of teen prohibition
  7/14/2006 - Three weeks before publishing its eye-catching "Grim Neurology of Teenage Drinking," The New York Times reported on another beverage children consume, breast milk: "Breast-fed babies are at lower risk...
  
  
• Ads influencing youth alcohol abuse
  7/14/2006 - INTENSIVE marketing of alcohol has definitely been a contributing factor to young people’s abuse of alcohol, says a Gisborne youth advocate. Manu Caddie, who has worked with Gisborne’s youth for a ...
  
  
• Experts cite growing prescription drug abuse among teens
  7/14/2006 - Area law enforcement officials and local addiction experts are alarmed at the rise in teenagers’ abuse of prescription drugs. They say more kids are popping random pills stolen from their parents’ ...
  
  
• Police bust teen drug ring: Five accused of stealing checks to finance operation; two 16-year-olds caught bagging cocaine
  7/14/2006 - KIRKLAND — Five teenagers have been arrested, and two are awaiting trial, for stealing checks to finance their own drug operation. Police found the two 16-year-olds who are already charged at one ...
  
  
• Teen pleads guilty to drug charges allegedly connected to police shooting
  7/14/2006 - WINDSOR, Ont. -- A Windsor teen admitted in court Friday he was involved in drug dealing allegedly connected to the May 5 murder of city police officer Const. John Atkinson. Coty Clifford Defausses...
  
  
• Drug abuse a concern in women with eating disorders
  7/7/2006 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who have eating disorders often abuse amphetamines, cocaine and other illicit drugs, new research indicates. "Drug abuse in women with eating disorders is an area ...
  
  
• Stop drug abuse, don't enable it
  7/7/2006 - Gov. Mitt Romney vetoed a bill last week that would have allowed for the sale of hypodermic needles without a prescription, saying it could help promote heroin use and send the wrong message to young ...
  
  
• In teen girls, depression and risky behavior might go hand-in-hand, research suggests
  7/7/2006 - Somewhere within the messy American intersection of gender, adolescence, sex, drugs and cultural messages, researchers have located what they are carefully defining as an "association": Sexual activit...
  
  
• Drug abuse top United Way priority
  7/7/2006 - Residents agree: Domestic violence is a top concern across Otter Tail County. Sixty-two percent of respondants in a survey conducted by United Way said shelter for victims of neglect, abuse or dome...
  
  
• Genetics may play role in drug abuse
  7/7/2006 - RICHMOND, Va., July 6 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say genetic factors may play an important role in a person's use, misuse or dependence on illicit drugs such as marijuana and cocaine. Virginia Comm...
  
  
• Teen pleads guilty to reckless homicide in crash that killed father
  7/7/2006 - ROGERSVILLE - Family members of a Hawkins County teen charged with vehicular homicide in the death of his father agreed with prosecutors last week that the charge against the boy should be reduced to ...
  
  
• Why Dads Matter
  7/5/2006 - A wealth of research confirms that fathers play a unique and important role in their children’s lives. Nevertheless, powerful forces in our society try to marginalize fathers. Unfortunately, these mis...
  
  
• Teen drinking a predictor for alcohol abuse later in life
  7/5/2006 - Researchers in the U.S. say that those who start drinking alcohol in their early teens are more likely to suffer alcoholism later in life. Information from a survey of 43,000 U.S. adults has further ...
  
  
• Calgary teen killed by hit-and-run driver remembered
  7/5/2006 - Stoically and silently they stand, the hush broken only by the occasional passing vehicle or escaped sob. They carry themselves with a maturity far beyond their years, but there is no denying the f...
  
  
• Students admit to having a drink
  7/2/2006 - The majority of Columbia teens have at least sipped alcohol in their lives, a recent survey shows. Columbia Public Schools gives ninth-graders a state-mandated drug and alcohol survey every two yea...
  
  
• Teen relates her life before drug court
  7/2/2006 - Sitting in the front of the Newton County Division I Courtroom, Megan heard the words that she had graduated from the Newton County Drug Court on Friday. Megan, a juvenile, was one of four (three j...
  
  
• Newark reeling from wave of teen homicides
  7/2/2006 - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Sixteen-year-old Edwin Figueroa was first, shot dead outside a doughnut shop after he had already handed his money over to robbers. Alexis Alvarez was next, gunned down in the m...
  
  
• Teen turns life around after using drugs
  7/1/2006 - Getting caught using drugs may have been the best thing that ever happened to Erik Kamrath. He changed schools, brought up his grades, got into rehab and is now a leader in the program that helped...
  
  
• Scholarships honor teens' U-turn from a dead end
  7/1/2006 - SANTA CLARITA - Daniel "DJ" Sheck was hooked on drugs and falling behind in class. But after some timely intervention, the recent high school graduate has a career path: law enforcement. Sheck, 18...
  
  
• Drug rehab program eyes charter school
  7/1/2006 - A teen drug-treatment program wanting to open a charter school through the San Mateo County Office of Education may have to look elsewhere for a sponsoring agency. Daytop, a nonprofit residential re...
  
  
• Private Drug Rehab Center
  7/1/2006 - Every Albertan with more than two brain cells to rub together agrees: teen drug addiction is ruining too many lives before they’ve even started, and something needs to be done about it. Right now. Er,...
  
  
• Teen crash survivor says life is sweeter now
  7/1/2006 - During his graduation from Lake Shore High School, 17-year-old Gylbert Musaraj couldn't get up to accept his diploma. So everyone else rose instead, giving the St. Clair Shores resident a standing ova...
  
  
• Alarming rise in number of child cannabis victims
  7/1/2006 - THE number of Scots children treated for cannabis abuse has almost doubled since the government announced the drug would be reclassified. Statistics which showed that children as young as nine wer...
  
  
• Behaviors May Indicate Risk of Adolescent Depression
  6/29/2006 - New findings from a study supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, show that girls and boys who exhibit high levels of risky behaviors have similar chan...
  
  
• Fewer teens realize dangers of "huffing"
  6/12/2006 - Reuters Health Monday, April 24, 2006 By Amy Norton NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About 20 percent of U.S. teenagers admit they have gotten high by inhaling common household products, and f...
  
  
• Cocaine use linked to serious heart condition
  5/22/2006 - Reuters Health Thursday, May 4, 2006 By Will Boggs, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term cocaine use may be associated with regional left ventricular dysfunction, a condition that redu...
  
  
• SAMHSA Unveils State Substance Abuse Data from 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health
  5/22/2006 - California and Wisconsin had increases in underage alcohol use in the past month between 2002- 2003 and 2003 - 2004, while Michigan and South Carolina showed decreases, according to a new state-by-sta...
  
  
• Data on Drug-related Emergency Room Visits Released by SAMHSA
  5/22/2006 - The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration today unveiled findings from its new Drug Abuse Warning Network showing almost 2 million drug-related emergency department visits in 2004....
  
  
• NIDA Research Uncovers the Neurobiology of Dread
  5/22/2006 - In what is the first brain imaging study of dread, new research supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, has shown that people who experience substantia...
  
  
• Drugs a factor in many sexual assaults, study says
  5/22/2006 - Reuters Health Friday, May 12, 2006 By JoAnne Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Drug use, willful or unwitting, is a factor in many sexual assaults and significantly increases a woman's risk of...
  
  
• Four Million Infected with Hepatitis C in U.S.
  5/22/2006 - Reuters Health Monday, May 15, 2006 NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Findings from a nationwide study suggest that 4.1 million people in the US have been infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), and...
  
  
• Hurt Teens Often Test Positive for Alcohol and Drugs
  5/22/2006 - Reuters Health Thursday, May 18, 2006 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 40 percent of teenagers treated for injuries at one hospital had traces of alcohol or illegal drugs in their blood, U.S. rese...