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Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents

October 6th, 2008  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

Prevention Principles
 
These principles are intended to help parents, educators, and community leaders think about, plan for, and deliver research-based drug abuse prevention programs at the community level. The references following each principle are representative of current research.

Risk Factors and Protective Factors

PRINCIPLE 1 - Prevention programs should enhance protective factors and reverse or reduce risk factors.14

The [...]

Drug Testing In the Workplace

September 24th, 2008  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

Drug testing is an effective is an effective tool for employers who want to deter workers from using illicit [...]

Harm Promotion

September 24th, 2008  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

Harm promotion, dubbed harm reduction, is a flawed notion proponents of the drug legalization movement use as a tactic to normalize [...]

Cannabis caution sends wrong signal

January 30th, 2006  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

30/01/06 - Ireland
By Sean McKiernan (Jnr), Fine Gael, Virginia Road, Bailieborough & Co Cavan
It must be criticised the suggestion by the DPP to gardaí, backed by Justice Minister Michael McDowell, that they should no longer prosecute those found in possession of cannabis for personal use, but instead be cautioned.
This sends out the wrong signal. It shows [...]

Legalizing drugs will only worsen the problem

January 26th, 2006  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

January 26, 2006
By Tom Sprague
I am a 38-year-old woman from Bangor. I am a recovering addict, just restarting my life. I’ve been clean for a year, and it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I want teenagers and people of all ages to know that if you think using drugs is fun now, it won’t [...]

Studies link psychosis, teenage marijuana use

January 26th, 2006  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

January 26, 2006 - Some adolescents carry genetic risk.
By Carey Goldberg
Researchers are offering new ammunition to worried parents trying to dissuade their teens from smoking marijuana: Evidence is mounting that for some adolescents whose genes put them at added risk, heavy marijuana use could increase the chances of developing severe mental illness — psychosis or [...]

Swedish Experiences of Drug Epidemic

November 7th, 2001  |  Full text  |  published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention

Address to The Select Health Committee of the New Zealand Parliament, held by Ove Rosengren, Chairman of The Swedish National Association for a Drug Free Society, RNS, November 7 2001.
I am very happy to be here today. It is very important that people from different parts of the world find ways to meet each other [...]

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Medicine & Health »

  • Can Taking Ecstasy Once Damage Your Memory?
    Oct 15, 2008 | Full text

    In the wake of a meeting of the UK government’s advisory body on drugs to discuss the harmful effects of ecstasy, Professor Keith Laws and Professor Fabrizio Schifano will reveal research findings about the drug at the university’s Health and Human Sciences Research Institute Showcase on October 21. [...]

  • Cocaine Use and Cardiovascular Complications
    Oct 7, 2008 | Full text

    Lester Grinspoon, MD, a psychiatrist and associate professor at Harvard, is frequently used as an “expert” in support of “medicalization of marijuana.” He has publicly attested to his personal use of illicit drugs and on several occasions has published statements in leading medical journals that cocaine is neither harmful [...]

  • Cocaine Accelerates HIV Infection
    Oct 7, 2008 | Full text

    It has been known for more than two decades that many illicit drugs inflict damage on the immune system leaving the body open to a host of opportunistic infections, not the least of which is the HIV virus. Other drugs accelerate the progression of HIV to full blown AIDS. In fact, a study [...]

Psychoactive Substances »

  • Prescription Pain Relievers
    Oct 22, 2008 | Full text

    Relief from pain. In some people, prescription pain relievers also cause euphoria or feelings of well being by affecting the brain regions that mediate pleasure. This is why they are abused. Other effects include drowsiness, constipation and slowed breathing. [...]

  • Study shows Ritalin may cause long-term changes in the brain
    Oct 21, 2008 | Full text

    On Sunday researchers at the University of Buffalo reported that Ritalin, used on children diagnosed with ADHD, may cause long-term changes in the brain. Many clinicians regard Ritalin as short-acting but the research with gene expression in an animal model suggests that it has the potential for causing long-lasting changes [...]

  • Brain Receptors for Marijuana/Cannabis
    Oct 20, 2008 | Full text

    The body produces many chemicals and hormones, i.e., histamines, steroids, thyroid hormone, digitalis-like substances, adrenalin, etc, all of which work by attaching to corresponding brain receptors. The key is that these natural substances produced by the body are present in nanogram amounts [...]

Cultural Environment »

  • Conventional wisdom strikes out
    Oct 6, 2008 | Full text

    Among the things everybody knows is that Democrats, being the party of the little people, raise money in small contributions, whereas Republicans, being the party of fat cats, raise funds in huge basketfuls from wealthy corporate types. At least, that’s the way the world is usually portrayed by the “Today Show,” The New York Times and the Democratic Party. So it’s of more than passing interest to see [...]

  • Movie and TV violence and obscenity
    Oct 6, 2008 | Full text

    A full page ad appeared Sunday, April 25, l999 in the Denver Rocky Mountain News. It had a picture of Steve Allen and an appeal to Parents. A partial quote from the ad read: Are you as disgusted as I am at the filfth, vulgarity, sex and violence TV is sending into our homes? are you fed up with steamy unmarried sex situations, filthy jokes, perversion, vulgarity, foul language, violence, killings, etc.? [...]

  • If you drive, dont groove
    Oct 6, 2008 | Full text

    A study from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University looked at driving under the influence of various types of music using a virtual Volkswagen New Beetle. The music used was Kenny G, “Stranger on the Shore” at 56 bpm, Spyro Gyra’s “Cashaca,” at 112 bpm, and DJ Jurgen, pop trance mix at 132 bpm. The study’s findings are just [...]