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Are you a teacher? Are you looking for materials or lesson plans on the effects of drugs and drug abuse? The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has created a great database of more than 70 teacher materials on the effects of drugs and...
Drug Misuse Prevention: Targeted Interventions
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has released guidelines that cover targeted interventions to prevent misuse of drugs, including illegal drugs, ‘legal highs’ and prescription-only medicines. It aims to prevent or...
Drugs on the Brain: Neurological Scans Predict Future Substance Use
A new study published in the journal Nature has found that brain scans can predict whether or not teenagers will develop drug taking behaviours later in life.
A sample of 14-year-olds was assessed. The investigation reports that, from an...
Sonno e uso di sostanze: qual è il collegamento?
Counselling Parents and Teens about Marijuana Use in the Era of Legalisation of Marijuana
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Many states have recently made significant changes to their legislation making recreational and/or medical marijuana use by adults legal. Although these laws, for the most part, have not targeted the adolescent population, they...
Better Working Memory, Less Temptation: Substance Abuse and Neuro-Mechanisms
New research published in the journal Addiction suggests that poor working memory and the inability to control impulses during adolescence are key predictors for future substance abuse. ‘Working memory’ refers to one’s capacity to...
The Urgent Need to Change the Current Medical Approach on Tobacco Cessation in Latin America
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Despite the accumulation of scientific evidence confirming the health consequences of smoking and the new paradigm of smoking as a disease where nicotine is the drug that modifies the functional and morphological characteristics...
Participation in School Sports and Marijuana Use among Male and Female Students
Reducing Risk: Assessing the Effectiveness of Computer-Based Interventions
Multiple Fentanyl Overdoses — New Haven, Connecticut, June 23, 2016
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What is already known about this topic?
Fentanyl and its analogs have been substituted for heroin and other opioids, and are usually marketed to persons seeking opioids. Because of fentanyl’s high potency compared with heroin...
Enzymes Involved in Cocaine Metabolism: A New Pharmacologic Approach to Treat Overdose Due to Cocaine
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Introduction: New therapeutic strategies against cocaine overdose toxicity have been developed. These new approaches are based on the design and synthesis of proteins involved in the destruction of cocaine before...
Delaying Marijuana Use to Age 17 Is Better for the Teenage Brain
The longer teenagers delay the use of marijuana, the better it is for their developing brains. However, a new study has found that there may be little adverse effect if one starts smoking the drug after the age of 17. According to the...
Plans for a Smoke-Free Finland Gather Pace
Finland plans to cut consumption of tobacco products - in any form – to less than 2% among adults by 2040. As is the case with many industrialised countries, Finland’s smoking rates have decreased in recent years as a result of various...
Adolescenza spensierata: un business rischioso
È ampiamente accettato che gli adolescenti sono predisposti a indulgere in comportamenti a rischio, più degli adulti. I ricercatori del Max Planck Institute for Human Development ci hanno recentemente fornito nuove informazioni sulle...
Healthy Nightlife Toolbox - Risorse per creare ambienti di vita notturna più sicuri
L'Healthy Nightlife Toolbox (HNT) è un'iniziativa internazionale che si concentra sulla riduzione dei danni derivanti dall'uso di alcol e droghe tra i giovani.
L'Healthy Nightlife Toolbox raccoglie e fornisce informazioni sugli...
Risorsa gratuita per la valutazione degli interventi di prevenzione e trattamento della droga
La Banca degli strumenti di valutazione (BEI) è una banca dati online di risorse liberamente disponibili per valutare i programmi e le iniziative di prevenzione e trattamento della droga. È possibile cercare nell'archivio per tipo di...
Tobacco and Cancer: Epidemiology and New Perspectives of Prevention and Monitoring in Mexico
Tobacco smoking is a causal risk factor of at least 16 different types of cancer. In Mexico, smoking causes 6,035 premature deaths annually of lung cancer and 5,154 from other types. Additionally, 16,408 new smoking attributable cases are...
Parental Socioeconomic Status and Teenage Smoking Rates: What's the Link?
In what way is parental socioeconomic status associated with nicotine dependence in children?
This is the question a new study conducted in Norway aimed to find out. The study measured parental socioeconomic status by looking at...
Healthier Alternatives and Natural Highs: The Success of the Icelandic Model
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