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

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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

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“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

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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 …

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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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