Drug, alcohol use continue to rise among boomers, fall for teens.
COCAINE and methamphetamine use among young adults is on the decline, federal data show, but abuse of prescription pain relievers is increasing. The latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, shows cocaine use among 18- to...

Program structure and counselor-client contact in outpatient substance abuse treatment.
Clients tend to have better treatment outcomes when more counseling sessions (Fiorentine and Anglin 1996, 1997) and case management services (McLellan et al. 1999) are provided and when counselor caseloads are low (McCaughrin and Price 1992; Woodward et al. 2006). While the ideal is to provide appropriate personal contact...

Substance-use problems: are uninsured workers at greater risk?
ALCOHOL-AND DRUG-RELATED DISORDERS annually cost an estimated $177 billion in lost productivity and health costs in the United States (Miller and Hendrie, 2005). An estimated 9% of full-time workers ages 18-64 years are heavy drinkers (Larson et al., 2007). The fallout from substance-use disorders is especially grave for those...

Child abuse and violence.
9781604561289 Child abuse and violence. Ed. by Tom I. Richardson and Marsha V. Williams, editors. Nova Science Publishers 2007 175 pages $90.00 Hardcover HV6626 Nine chapters are collected here covering subjects...

A longitudinal investigation of powder cocaine use among club-drug using gay and bisexual men.
COCAINE USE HAS REMAINED a public health issue in the United States for more than a century. This substance is the most prevalent illicit drug used in the United States aside from marijuana and illegally obtained prescription drugs and is involved in more emergency department visits than any other...

A serotonin transporter gene polymorphism (5-HTTLPR), drinking-to-cope motivation, and negative life events among college students.
DRINKING TO COPE (DTC) with stress and negative mood is believed to be an important antecedent of alcohol abuse and dependence (Cooper et al., 1995; Greeley and Oei, 1999). To date, researchers examining the predictors of individuals' reports of DTC have focused predominantly on personality factors and Social Learning...

Rogue Internet Pharmacies on the Run: LegitScript Shuts Down 500 No-Prescription-Required Online Pharmacies.
Websites fueling prescription drug abuse, selling non-FDA approved drugs taken offline ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LegitScript, an online pharmacy certification program, announced today that it has succeeded in getting nearly 500 "rogue" Internet pharmacy websites shut down. The sites had been selling prescription...

Three-year changes in adult risk drinking behavior in relation to the course of alcohol-use disorders.
NUMEROUS STUDIES HAVE EXAMINED changes in volume and pattern of drinking over the life course, with most focusing on the heavy drinking trajectories from adolescence to early adulthood (Chassin et al., 2002; Hill et al., 2000; Oesterle et al., 2004; Schulenberg et al., 1996; Tucker et al., 2003; Windle...

Teenage alcohol use and educational attainment.
PROSPECTIVE STUDIES HAVE DOCUMENTED that heavy alcohol use in adolescence is associated with lower enrollment in postsecondary education, reduced earnings, and heightened job instability in young adulthood (Bachman et al., 1997, 2008; Cook and Moore, 1993; Koch and Ribar, 200l; Renna, 2007). We use data from a 42-year longitudinal...

Video: IAVA and Ad Council Launch National PSA Campaign for Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Time for Veterans Day, Campaign Directs Veterans to the First and Only Online Community Created Exclusively for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to help ease the transition and readjustment challenges facing Iraq and Afghanistan veterans in their return...