October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Today we have started the campaign, The 2003 Vienna Declaration, to support the UN Conventions on Drugs and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and by that to also counteract the pro drug advocates and their efforts to seek political support to undermine the UN conventions. If they succeed it will open [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
1. Captured: Mexican Cartel Leader One of the most wanted, feared, and violent drug traffickers in the world was captured on March 14th by law enforcement in Mexico. Osiel Cardenas-Guillen was head of a major Mexican drug trafficking organization that controlled large-scale marijuana and cocaine trafficking from Mexico to the United States. –Get the scoop [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Representing drug prevention, treatment, and policy organizations from around the world, the International Task Force on Strategic Drug Policy met in Brussels, Belgium on Feb 27-28 to discuss effective drug policy strategies and compose this statemen We support the United Nations position that the goal of national and global drug policies and strategies must be [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Fri, Jan. 27, 2006 By Betsy Taylor TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo. – The young men walking the halls at Christian Brothers College High School in suburban St. Louis couldn’t look more clean cut than they do in their school-sanctioned collared shirts and dress pants. But administrators here – looking to move beyond appearances_ are proposing [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
SUICIDE, HOMICIDE AND MENTAL ILLNESS Two papers in the Journal this month investigate suicide rates among two groups in recent contact with mental health services – one group having been in contact with services in the previous 12 months (Hunt et al, pp. 135–142) and the other group a sample of in-patients and those within [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention, For Parents
Start early As a parent, take the opportunity to talk to your child first, before they hear and receive mixed messages from their peers. Initiate conversations with your child Speak clearly to your child and use vocabulary that they will be able to understand. Wait for a window of opportunity to initiate conversation; try not [...]
October 6th, 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 drug use, claiming it is inevitable. Harm reduction attempts to reduce the physical consequences of drug use without reducing the use of legal and illegal drugs. The proven efficacy of drug prevention and abstinence-based [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Risk Factors and Protective Factors What are risk factors and protective factors? Research over the past two decades has tried to determine how drug abuse begins and how it progresses. Many factors can add to a person’s risk for drug abuse. Risk factors can increase a person’s chances for drug abuse, while protective factors [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Planning for Drug Abuse Prevention in the Community How can the community develop a plan for research-based prevention? The first step in planning a drug abuse prevention program is to assess the type of drug problem within the community and determine the level of risk factors affecting the problem. The results of this assessment [...]
October 6th, 2008 | Full text | published by BRAHA Editor in Drug Prevention
Applying Prevention Principles to Drug Abuse Prevention Programs How are risk and protective factors addressed in prevention programs? The risk and protective factors are the primary targets of effective prevention programs used in family, school, and community settings. The goal of these programs is to build new and strengthen existing protective factors and reverse [...]
The world’s best business model has always been addiction. Tobacco and alcohol have been around for ages, but new temptations and spinoffs are being marketed all the time: meth, painkillers, energy drinks, you name it.
Importantly, the study also finds that the risk of violence from patients with psychoses who also have substance use disorder is no greater than those who have a substance use disorder but who do not have a psychotic illness – in other words, schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses do not appear to be responsible for any additional risk of violence above the increased risk associated with substance abuse.
Smoking marijuana over an extended period of time appears to greatly boost a young man’s risk for developing a particularly aggressive form of testicular cancer, a new study reveals. [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As California State Assembly member Tom Ammiano put it: “What if California could raise hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue to preserve vital state services without any tax increase?” [...]
“The fight against drugs is actually the fight for Afghanistan,” said Afghan President Hamid Karzai when he took office in 2002. Judging by the current situation, Afghanistan is losing. [...]
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 [...]