The University of Texas at Austin Center for Health Communication was awarded a $642,000, two-year contract by The Texas Health and Human Services Commission to develop and test effective messaging with health care providers and prescribers across the state to promote the new monitoring program.
“This is an exciting opportunity
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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day
October 28, 2017 from 10 am – 2 pm
YSAPC Take Back Day 2017 Flyer
Take Back Day Flyer (Spanish)
Please bring your unused, expired prescription and over the counter medications at any of the following locations near you:
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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
July 12, 2017 — New research has shown that people who battle mental health disorders as children are at greater risk of developing addictions as adults. Dutch researchers launched a study to look at people who had anxiety, depression, oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), conduct disorder (CD), or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder
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 .......
Dec. 8, 2016 – Washington Post — Opioid — Deaths continued to surge in 2015, surpassing 30,000 for the first time in recent history, according to CDC data released Thursday.
That marks an increase of nearly 5,000 deaths from 2014. Deaths involving powerful synthetic opiates, like fentanyl, rose by nearly
Dec 19, 2016 — An analysis of medical marijuana use among adults in the United States indicates that more than 21% of medical marijuana users reside in states that have not legalized its use; suggesting that physicians might be recommending medical marijuana regardless of legalization in their respective states.
The
Dec 8, 2016 — Heavy alcohol use during adolescence alters the development of brain, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. Cortical thinning was observable in young people who had been heavy drinkers throughout their adolescence. The findings were published in Addiction… Continue to full story .......
DEC 06, 2016 (WASHINGTON) –DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced results from the 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA), which details the extent to which illicit drugs are affecting the United States. Most notably, the 2016 NDTA continues to illuminate the nationwide opioid epidemic, which is fueling a … Continue to full story .......
Nov. 18, 2016 — USNEWS.com — The U.S. Surgeon General’s office has issued the agency’s first-ever report on addiction, which includes proposals for restricting alcohol access that critics say go too far and could end up targeting usage among even casual drinkers.
The report, Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon
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