Preventing Adolescent Drug Abuse Through Life Skills Training
Preventing Adolescent Drug Abuse through Life Skills Training – Considerable progress has been made toward developing effective approaches to the prevention of tobacco, alcohol, and illicit drug use. Universal school-base…
Garden City Community Coalition gets new federal grant
Filed under: drug abuse prevention
Recipient coalitions are eligible for two five-year funding cycles to build prevention and reduce youth alcohol and substance abuse. In 2008, the Garden City Community Coalition became the first and only prevention coalition in out-Wayne County to be …
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Tippecanoe group gets 5864 to fight youth substance abuse
Filed under: drug abuse prevention
“We'll use environmental prevention strategies to change the environment that makes this alcohol and drug abuse possible,” said Kate Kerrigan, director of the coalition. She said those strategies include: education for parents, promoting responsible …
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DC Week: FDA Tightens Opioid Labeling
Filed under: drug abuse prevention
The move, announced at press briefing Tuesday, is part of a handful of changes that the agency hopes will curb an ongoing prescription painkiller epidemic, including a label clarification about the risks of abuse and death with the drugs, a requirement …
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Amid increased wave of narcotics trafficking: New anti-drugs law making …
Filed under: drug abuse prevention
He further argued that the stakeholders would be allowed to contribute views which are not in the current Act with the aim of ensuring the attainment of a better Act that could have an overall control of curbing and preventing the whole problem which …
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