Teens with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – the most common childhood psychiatric condition in the United States – are less likely to finish high school on time than students with other mental-health disorders that often are considered more serious, a large national study by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine has found…
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Top Of The List For Dropping Out Of High School – ADHD, Conduct Disorder And Smoking
Alcoholic intervention is an important part of providing valuable alcohol abuse help for someone struggling with an alcohol addiction . An alcoholic intervention is a meeting which includes the alcoholic, family members, friends and …
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What Makes A Successful Alcoholic Intervention And Alcohol Abuse …
Alcoholic intervention is a big step forward towards providing valuable alcohol abuse help for someone dealing with an alcohol addiction . An alcoholic intervention is a meeting which includes the alcoholic, family members, friends and …
DrugScope has responded to the Department of Health’s announcement that the National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA) is to be abolished as a statutory organisation. The NTA will cease to exist as an organisation in its own right but its functions will be transferred to a new Public Health Service, which will be directly accountable to the Secretary of State…
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DrugScope Responds To Government’s Decision To Abolish National Treatment Agency, UK
Most older gay and bisexual men enrolled in a long-term study of HIV used recreational drugs infrequently over a 10-year period, report University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health researchers at the XVIII International AIDS Conference…
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Most Men In Long-Term Study Of HIV Report Low Use Of Illicit Drugs
A new US study found that giving children drugs for malicious reasons, which is not classed as a form of child abuse and perhaps should be, is an under recognized national problem. A report on the study, by Dr Shan Yin from the University of Colorado in Denver and the Rocky Mountain Poison Drug Center at Denver Health, is about to be published in The Journal of Pediatrics…
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Abusing Children With Drugs Under Recognized, US Study
The presence and severity of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) are influenced by factors beyond alcohol consumption. A new study of one of those factors that may increase the risk of FASD – maternal age – has found that the impact of maternal binge drinking during pregnancy on attention was greater among children born to older drinking mothers…
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Prenatal Alcohol Exposure: Children Of Older Women Appear More Vulnerable
Teens who visit stores with cigarette advertising at least twice a week are significantly more likely to start smoking, according to the study, “A Longitudinal Study of Exposure to Retail Cigarette Advertising and Smoking Initiation,” published in the August print issue of Pediatrics (published online July 19). Researchers studied 1,681 adolescents aged 11 to 14 years who had never smoked…
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Retail Advertising Increases Smoking – American Academy Of Pediatrics
It’s Time To Shift Spending To The States Politico The U.S. fiscal path is unsustainable, primarily because of out-of-control entitlement spending. … At some point, therefore, the economy is due to crash unless Washington reins in spending. One way to avoid this outcome would be to transfer entitlement programs to the states …
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Today’s OpEds: Shift Entitlement Spending To The States; The Lack Of A GOP Health Plan; Battling Tobacco
On the third anniversary of England’s smokefree public places law, research shows that public support for the law is strong and continuing to grow, particularly among smokers. According to a YouGov poll for ASH [1] support for the law has doubled since it was introduced in 2007 and for every four smokers who oppose the law there are five who support it…
