July 19, 2017 — Drug enforcement agents have launched a new website in a bid to crack down on illegal drug use by college students and stop later-life addiction.
The website — campusdrugprevention.gov — was created by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to reduce the amount of substance experimentation
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April 25, 2017 — Reuters Washington — U.S. data has shown for the first time that drivers killed in crashes were more likely to be on drugs than drunk, with marijuana involved in more than a third of fatal accidents in 2015, a study released on Wednesday showed. Forty-three percent … Continue to full story .......
April 26, 2017 — The opioid epidemic has led to the deadliest drug crisis in US history — deadlier than the crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s. Drug overdoses now cause more deaths than gun violence and car crashes. They even caused more deaths in 2015 than HIV/AIDS did … Continue to full story .......
Sept. 20, 2016 – Austin Recovery (AR), the city’s longest serving provider of addiction recovery services, today appointed one of its own to its top leadership post. Laura Sovine, LMSW-AP, will take the helm of the non-profit agency as executive director effective.
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March 09, 2016 — An online guide about interventions in early childhood that can help prevent drug use and other unhealthy behaviors was launched today by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
The guide offers research-based principles that affect a child’s
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