Why Does NIDA Support Research Into Drug Abuse Treatment as HIV Prevention?
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Students' Shifting Marijuana Views Tied to Legalization Push
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Experts say that shifting attitudes about the drug complicate schools' drug-abuse-prevention classes, where teachers must navigate conflicts between state and federal drug laws, disputes about the effects of marijuana, and, increasingly, a contrast …
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Guest Voice of Nancy Starr: How to prevent drug, alcohol abuse
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Robert L. DuPont, M.D., the first director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse and founder/president of the Institute for Behavior and Health Inc., wrote in the Journal, May-June 1987, that society needs to protect youth during their particularly …
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On Bakken oil patch, heroin brings violence, organized crime
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Heroin is derived from opium, the use of which was prevalent in the West in the 19th century, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Morphine was also derived from opium and lauded as a miracle painkiller through the Civil War, which left …
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Professor Probes Psychedelic Drugs for a Cure to Nicotine Addiction
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The biological underpinnings of that change are still a mystery, but Johnson has recently partnered with the National Institute on Drug Abuse to conduct brain-imaging studies that might shed light. Volunteers in the smoking study, which began in 2008 …
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