Addiction

Why Are Many American Adults Misusing Prescription Painkillers?

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Prescription painkillers are second only to marijuana as the United States drug of choice. Around 91.8 million Americans aged 18 and above used prescription painkillers in 2014, according to the 2015 National Survey on Drug Use and Health...

Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults

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Preventing Marijuana Use among Youth and Young Adults is a new release from the US Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). It provides the latest facts about marijuana use in the United States and includes information...

EMCDDA Insights: Prevention of Substance Abuse

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Prevention of Substance Abuse by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is a report that draws on evidence-based research to assess substance use prevention interventions, in terms of their ability to...

Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) Principles of Substance Abuse Prevention for Early Childhood (2017) is a special volume that supplements the organisation’s Preventing Drug Abuse Among Children and Adolescents, released in 2003...

WHO's 2017 Global Tobacco Epidemic Report

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The latest report on the global tobacco epidemic from the World Health Organization (WHO) is now available to download. Among its key findings is that around 4.7 billion people (63% of the world’s population) are now covered by at least one...

Preventing Drug-Related Deaths

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Drug-related deaths are rising and are a major concern to councils and our health partners. Deaths have increased sharply over the past five years and are now at their highest levels since records began. Any death related to the misuse of...