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New Prevention Program Helps Middle School Challenges
Written by Jenna Bensoussan   
Friday, 01 February 2008
A new, research-based program that provides middle school students with skills that promote school success and prevent bullying, substance abuse, and violence is now available from Committee for Children (CfC).

Second Step: Student Success Through Prevention is based on research that links lack of communication and social skills with many problem behaviors for middle-school-aged children, such as substance use and interpersonal violence.

The program is a complete revision for the sixth, seventh, and eighth grade versions of the award-winning Second Step: A Violence Prevention Curriculum, which has been helping children learn and practice such important skills as empathy, impulse control, anger management, and problem solving for nearly 20 years.
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Canada to Educate Their Youth on Drugs
Written by Jenna Bensoussan   
Friday, 01 February 2008
A new national program in Canada, designed to prevent youth from using drugs, received $10 million from the federal government.

The money is slated to go toward the Drug Prevention Strategy for Youth, a new five-year plan led by the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse, the government-supported national agency for substance abuse.

The strategy will target youth between the ages of 10 and 24, and will have several goals: to reduce the number of youth using illegal drugs, to delay and deter the onset of drug use, to reduce the frequency of drug use, and to reduce multiple drug use among those young people who do use.

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Doctors Underestimate the Power of Screening for Problem Drinking
Written by 360support   
Wednesday, 09 January 2008
A 10-minute screening and talk with a doctor about problem drinking delivers almost as much bang for the buck to the health system as childhood immunization and advice about taking aspirin to prevent stroke and heart attack, according to a new systematic review — but just 8.7 percent of problem drinkers report receiving such information.

The review, which appears in the February issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, included data from 10 randomized controlled trials of alcohol problem screening and advice by primary care doctors.

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Smoking Cessation in Substance Abuse Treatment Programs
Written by Jenna Bensoussan   
Wednesday, 05 December 2007
Patients in treatment for substance use disorders have a high prevalence of smoking. Treating nicotine dependence in substance abuse treatment settings, however, is uncommon.

Researchers in this study evaluated the feasibility of implementing a smoking cessation intervention in substance abuse treatment programs. They surveyed, as part of a randomized trial, the program directors, research directors, and 1442 patients from 13 different sites.
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Young Adult Workers More Likely to Use Illicit Drugs
Written by John Casquarelli   
Thursday, 08 November 2007
According to the Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) at the University of Maryland, young adult workers are more likely to use illicit drugs than their older counterparts.

Almost 20% of full-time workers between the ages of 18 and 25 reported using illicit drugs in the past month, compared to 10% of full-time workers between the ages of 26 and 34, and 7% of full-time workers between the ages of 35 and 49.
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