Many people make new promises to their health and well-being at the beginning of the year. To emphasize the value of expanding access to treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs), SAMHSA is launching “SUD Treatment Month” in January. This annual observance will be dedicated to spreading awareness about the effectiveness … Continue to full story .......
Oct 26, 2017 – KVUE AUSTIN – Here in Central Texas, Austin-Travis County EMS officials say opioid abuse is a problem, but it’s not a crisis. The Travis County Medical Examiner’s annual report for 2016 shows drug-related deaths account for just more than one quarter of accidental deaths in the … Continue to full story .......
Oct 23, 2017 – The Daily Texan — Saturday was not Miriam Rivero’s first UT tailgate, but it was the first where she felt comfortable as a student in recovery from addiction. Rivero attended an alcohol-free tailgate, hosted by sober fraternity Alpha 180 and the Recovery First Tailgaters, to celebrate … Continue to full story .......
Oct 26, 2017 – KSAT – San Antonio is on the way to joining 13 other large cities and five states around the nation that ban tobacco sales to people under 21 years of age. Results from an online survey conducted by San Antonio Metro Health show that 77
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
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.
As AR’s executive director, Sovine will continue to … Continue to full story .......
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
Feb. 29, 2016–The DailyItem.Com — More and more, college students hope to focus better on studying by taking a drug used to treat attention deficit disorder. But the drug, a stimulant called Adderall, is addictive, and some professionals suggest it can lead to use of harder drugs. Dr. Margaret Jarvis,
Substantial evidence from animal research and a growing number of studies in humans indicate that marijuana exposure during development can cause long-term or possibly permanent adverse changes in the brain. Rats exposed to THC before birth, soon after birth, or during adolescence show notable problems with specific learning and memory … Continue to full story .......
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