Intervention-Based Studies: Working to Reduce Adolescent Substance Use

Intervention-based studies: Working to reduce adolescent substance use – This DatStat Case Study Webinar features Traci Schwinn, M.S., Ph.D., of the Columbia University School of Social Work, discussing her RealTeen study, which a…

Philip Seymour Hoffman Didn't Have to Die

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A Rhode Island study revealed that 35% of opioid users had overdosed at least once themselves and two-thirds had seen someone else do so. While we don't know … The government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) is …
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The Michelangelo of Lego Who Quit Law to Play With Toys

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But when you look to the standard bearers of the Tea Party Right—even those who, as the Daily Kos described, are “strategically adopting positions to triangulate … left and right flank[s]” (read: Rand Paul)—the substance of their reforms is pretty …
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Could Drug-Replacement Therapy Have Saved Philip Seymour…

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In one study, patients taking buprenorphine integrated the drug into their normal day and lived otherwise-drug-free healthy lives; but, once off the drug—even after tapering and counseling—close to 100 percent of patients relapsed. … As Mark …
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