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Both houses of Congress seem to be of like mind regarding the future of the Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities (SDFSC) program: eliminate the formula-based state grants portion of the program and shift a portion of the funding …
State law in California requires that nonviolent drug offenders be given the opportunity to attend treatment rather than go to prison, but the fallout from the state’s recent budget crisis could mean that many won’t be able to access services. …
The state grants portion of the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFS) may not be quite dead, but the prevention grants program is definitely on death row after the full House Appropriations Committee voted to eliminate the $295-million …
A Los Angeles researcher has developed a new multiple-choice test that claims to predict if a child will join a gang in the future, the Wall Street Journal reported on May 20. Malcolm Klein, Ph.D., a retired University of Southern …
Patients taking the stop-smoking drugs Chantix and Zyban/Wellbutrin should be closely monitored for symptoms of serious mental illness that could lead to the risk of suicide, according to a new directive from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The …
A special panel at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has recommended a formal study on the possibility of merging the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) to form a National …
Baseball players like Alex Rodriguez, Roger Clemens and Manny Ramirez remain heroes to many Little Leaguers, but that doesn’t mean that these young adolescents are unaware of baseball’s steroid scandal or unwilling to condemn players who cheated to gain a …
The Tennessee House of Representatives approved legislation that would allow people who have handgun permits to bring the weapons into alcohol-serving establishments, the Associated Press reported May 8. The measure, which passed by a 66-23 vote, departs from earlier efforts …
Teenagers expect and want adults to discourage them from using tobacco, according to new research from the Umea University in Sweden, Science Daily reported May 5. Researcher Maria Nilsson evaluated the impact of an anti-smoking program, Tobacco-Free Duo, which started …
The British Columbia Court of Appeal is considering the Canadian government’s bid to shut down the Insite supervised-injection program for opiate addicts, the Vancouver Courier reported April 29. The Conservative government is appealing a 2008 B.C. Supreme Court ruling that …
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