Drug Testing of Adolescents Could Backfire

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly By Peter Provet, Ph.D. Earlier this summer, the United States Supreme Court ruled that broad-based drug testing in public schools is constitutional. When the justices reached this momentous decision, most of the nation’s school...

Start Chewing may be Tobacco Option

The New York Sun By Julia Levy Harm Reduction To Be Topic At Health Symposium If all current smokers in America switched from cigarettes to smokeless tobacco products, 80 times fewer people a year could die of tobacco related illnesses within one generation, an...

Jobs Elude Former Addicts

The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks   (NEW YORK) Throughout the job interview, Georgia Evans waited anxiously for the question to be asked: Have you ever had a drug or alcohol problem? When it wasn’t, she didn’t volunteer the information....

Illicit Drug Use Grows Among Elderly

The Christian Science Monitor By Alexandra Marks   Susie Richardson is not your average recovering addict. She was 50 years old when curiosity got the better of her and she tried crack cocaine. The result was a “devastating” addiction that for 10...

Ecstasy Parties On — With Dangerous Results

NEW YORK – Ecstasy, the potentially lethal “love drug,” is on the move. Glamorized in the 1990s by the predominantly white and suburban all-night “rave culture,” E-pills are now spreading fast into America’s rural areas and inner...