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- Win $500 Worth of Red Ribbon Merchandise For Your School - (Deadline for Entries is December 1, 2011) Miami, FL (PRWEB) November 21, 2011 The National Family Partnership (NFP) announced its annual call-for-entries for the new theme of next year’s Red Ribbon Week. “The winner will receive national acclaim and recognition,” said Peggy Sapp, NFP’s volunteer president. “The winning slogan and design will be used throughout 2012 at thousands of schools and...

New research suggests that a high childhood IQ may be linked to subsequent illegal drug use. Researchers studied data from 8,000 people in the 1970 British Cohort Study, which is a large ongoing population based study. The IQ scores of the participants were measured at the ages of 5 and 10 years by using a validated scale, and then the information that was gathered on self reported levels of psychological distress and drug use at the ages of 16 and 30. The team found that about a...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mentor Foundation USA, the international organization that is focused on preventing drug abuse among youth, joined the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the Embassy of Sweden in observing National Drug Abuse Facts Day on Nov. 2, bringing together top scientists, parents, educators, counselors, community members and students to find ways to address the growing problem of prescription drug abuse by youth. Speakers at the conference, which...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Mentor Foundation USA, the leading global organization in preventing drug abuse among youth, joins the National Institute on Drug Abuse and The Embassy of Sweden in observing National Drug Facts Day by bringing together top scientists, parents, educators and community members to address the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among youth. The seminar will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 2 from 6 to 8 p.m. at The Embassy of Sweden, 2900...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In observance of National Drug Facts Week (NDFW), Mentor Foundation USA in partnership with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Embassy of Sweden and The Mario Do Right Foundation is hosting National Drug Facts Day (NDFD) at the Swedish Embassy on November 2, 2011, from 10:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m. One hundred D.C. high school students have been invited to have an opportunity to interact with top U.S. scientific experts and...

Narconon counselors help handle the reports on treatment admissions that show women suffer from higher rates of prescription drug and methamphetamine addiction while youth fall prey to marijuana, tranquilizer, and inhalant addiction. Houston, Texas (PRWEB) September 19, 2011 Recent Houston Chronicle reports have revealed that the city has become a “national hub for overdose deaths and pill mills.” Women and adolescents in the city struggle with their own particular brands of...

  The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), published by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), reveals that drug use rose in the US between 2008 and 2010. It indicates that 22.6 million Americans aged 12 or older (8.9 percent of the population) were currently drug users. In 2008 the rate of drug use was 8 percent while in 2009 through 2001 the percentage stayed steady at 8.7 percent. The survey indicates that the increased rate of drug use...

Caron Reinforces Need for Open, Honest Discussions on Substance Abuse Issues WERNERSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Whether teens are entering high school for the first time or advancing grades, heading back-to-school can be both exciting and stressful. As teens face new challenges, new environments and new social influences in heading back to school, these stressors can lead teens to experiment with illegal substances. Recent studies have shown high stress teens are...

People who abused methamphetamine or other amphetamine-like stimulants were more likely to develop Parkinson's disease than those who did not, in a new study from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).The researchers examined almost 300,000 hospital records from California covering 16 years. Patients admitted to hospital for methamphetamine or amphetamine-use disorders had a 76 per cent higher risk of developing Parkinson's disease compared to those with no disorder.Globally,...

More than one-fifth of all Americans are binge drinkers, regularly consuming more than five alcoholic beverages a day, according to the results of a new Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) released Thursday.Twenty-three percent of the population reported participating in binge drinking, according to Daniel Bates of the Daily Mail. Furthermore, approximately 8-percent of underage drinkers surveyed said that they would get drunk on a weekly basis, despite being...