NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, MD on 2011 Monitoring the Future Results
NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, MD on 2011 Monitoring the Future Results – Since 1975 the MTF survey has measured drug, alcohol, and cigarette use and related attitudes among adolescent students nationwide. Survey participants report their drug use behaviors across three time periods: lifetime, past year, and past month. Overall, 46733 students from 400 public and private schools in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades participated in this year’s survey. The survey is funded by the NIDA, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and conducted by the University of Michigan. This video can also be viewed at: www.drugabuse.gov Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: newmedia.hhs.gov
Drug Abuse Runs in Families
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The study was funded by grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Council for Information on Alcohol and Other Drugs (CAN), and an ALF project grant, Lund, Sweden. The authors have disclosed no …
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Recreational Marijuana: Are There Health Effects?
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Marijuana smoke contains cancer-causing substances, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Some research shows that marijuana smoke has up to 70% more cancer-causing substances than tobacco smoke, it says. "Nobody is advocating that …
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Lethal stings from the Australian box jellyfish could be treated with zinc
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… Stroke, UH1HL073449 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, P20RR016453 and G12RR003061 from the National Center for Research Resources, and grant R21DA024444 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health.
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