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Substance Abuse Research and Information
- Cocaine Spurs Long-Term Change in Brain Chemistry (May 14, 2009)
- Drinking to up mood tied to alcoholism, depression (May 12, 2009)
- High School Students Who Tried to Quit Smoking Cigarettes --- United States, 2007 (May 1, 2009)
- Study: More Than 1 in 10 Children Live with a Substance Abusing Parent (April 29, 2009)
- Treatment Outcomes among Clients Discharged from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment (April 23, 2009)
- Binge Drinking May Damage Teens' Brains (April 22, 2009)
- Tough Laws, Higher Prices Mean Fewer Kids Smoke (April 17, 2009)
- Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002 to 2007 (April 16, 2009)
Government Agency News
Community News
What Every Woman Should Know about Alcohol and Pregnancy (April 27, 2009)
When a pregnant woman drinks alcohol, so does her unborn baby. Read the 5 things every woman should know about drinking alcohol during pregnancy. Read more.
Substance Abuse Research and Information
Cocaine Spurs Long-Term Change in Brain Chemistry (May 14, 2009)
Scientists at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine used a new molecular analysis technique to map the effects of drug use in a critical part of the brain's "reward circuitry" in mice injected with cocaine. The process showed, for the first time, that a family of genes called the sirtuins is activated by chronic cocaine use and fuels addiction-related behaviors in lab animals. Read more.
Drinking to up mood tied to alcoholism, depression (May 12, 2009)
People who regularly use drinking as a coping strategy are more prone to depression and at greater risk of alcoholism. The USC study team studied 5,181 twins aged 30 and older to tease out the effects of environment and genes on certain traits. Read more.
High School Students Who Tried to Quit Smoking Cigarettes --- United States, 2007 (May 1, 2009)
Most adult smokers start before the age of 18 years. The CDC found from analysis of the 2007 Youth Risk Behavior Survey that 60.9% of students who ever smoked cigarettes daily tried to quit smoking cigarettes, and only 12.2% were successful. Read more.
Study: More Than 1 in 10 Children Live with a Substance Abusing Parent (April 29, 2009)
Almost 12 percent of children under the age of 18 years of age live with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year, according to a report by SAMHSA. The report is based on national data from 2002 to 2007. Read more.
Treatment Outcomes among Clients Discharged from Outpatient Substance Abuse Treatment (April 23, 2009)
Of the 1.37 million client discharges in 2005 with a reported reason for discharge, a total of 601,000 or 44 percent completed treatment, 343,000 or 25 percent dropped out of treatment, and 115,000 or 8 percent had their treatment terminated by the facility. Read more.
Binge Drinking May Damage Teens' Brains (April 22, 2009)
Binge drinking may be doing serious damage to the sensitive "white matter" in the brain, is involved in relaying information between brain cells. This means that damage caused to the developing brain by bouts of heavy drinking could affect thinking and memory. Read more.
Tough Laws, Higher Prices Mean Fewer Kids Smoke (April 17, 2009)
American youth who live in states that comply with tobacco sales laws are less likely to pick up smoking than are those who live where the laws are not vigorously enforced, a new study has found. Raising the price of a pack of cigarettes might also have an equal, if not greater, effect. Read more.
Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002 to 2007 (April 16, 2009)
Data from 2002 to 2007 indicate that over 8.3 million children under 18 years of age (11.9%) lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year. Read more.
Government Agency News
SAMHSA and FDA join to educate the public on the safe use of methadone (April 28, 2009)
SAMHSA and the FDA today launched an initiative to help ensure the safe use of methadone. The campaign responds to concerns about an escalating number of poisoning deaths linked to the improper use of this medication. Read more.
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