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- Average age of school-going children picking up drugs, smoking habit in 10 Indian cities around 13 years
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- New measures to tackle drug-trafficking and help protect Europe’s health and security
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- Experts raising awareness on addiction associated with energy drinks containing Kratom
- New Study Finds One in Four 12th Graders More Likely to Use Marijuana If Legalized
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- Canada follows Iceland’s lead on drug prevention
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- Teenage drug use in South Korea reaches alarming levels
- ‘Young Americans for Liberty’ set out their game plan
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- Cannabis ‘is worse for our society than heroin,’ police tsars say – as they demand government upgrade it to a class A drug
- Launch of ‘Safe futures’: a project tackling the recruitment of young people by drug markets
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- WATCH: Santa Ana fifth graders promote drug-free message in music video
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- No amount of marijuana is safe for teens
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- Teens Learn about the Many Risks of Vaping — Nicotine and THC Are More Potent, Addictive, and Dangerous than Ever
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- Marijuana Use Is Rising, But Is It a Cancer Risk?
- Swordsman accused of murdering schoolboy ‘became psychotic after taking cannabis’
- The Top Seven of Teen Substance Use Trends Parents Need to Know in 2025
- “Stoned on the road”: A systematic review of cannabis-impaired driving; educational initiatives targeting young drivers in Canada
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- 1 in 4 Kids Lives With a Parent Battling Addiction, Alarming Study Finds
- Attorney General James Co-Leads Bipartisan Coalition Urging Congress to Pass Legislation to Prevent Youth Substance Abuse
- Changes in Synthetic Opioid–Involved Youth Overdose Deaths in the United States: 2018–2022
- The Seward Prevention Coalition and the Icelandic Prevention Model for youth drug abuse
- Cannabis Vaping and Drug Trends Among Youth in Australia (2014–2024): A Growing Concern
- Opinion: To Save America’s Youth, Lawmakers Should Invest in Drug Prevention |
- Prevention Works: Historic Drop in U.S. Overdose Deaths Signals Hope
- DEA Releases 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment
- ‘Growing Up Safe’: Prevention Strategies for Children and Adolescents
- Kelly, Tillis, Coons Introduce Legislation to Address Youth Drug Use
- If smug middle-class users of drugs knew this, they’d be horrified
- Boys need role models not gaming and porn, Sir Gareth Southgate says
- States and Feds Are Partners in Fight Against Opioid Epidemic
- Kentucky’s ‘Better Without It’ Anti-Drug Campaign Recruits College Basketball Players to Reach Youth
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- Sober Truth on Preventing Underage Drinking Act (STOP Act) Grant Program
- Prevention program has reduced odds of teen drug use: Study
- Inhalant Abuse Prevention
- Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy, Jr. urges community as fix to opioid crisis
- RFK recounts heroin addiction and spiritual awakening, urges focus on prevention and community
- Launching Friends in Focus in Italy: A Collaborative Community Effort
- ‘Just Say No’ still works!
- Egypt Selected as First Country to Implement Child Prevention Systems Initiative
- UNODC: Youth Forum 2025: When prevention is a priority, resilience becomes a reality!
- Successful Drug Prevention Program – Planet Youth.
- Too High, Too Young: Substance Abuse Among Teens
- Youth Forum 2025: Youth taking the lead in peer-led drug prevention
- Youth Forum 2025: When prevention is a priority, resilience becomes a reality!
- Shaping Global Drug Policies: CND opens its 68th Session in Vienna
- CND 68 Concludes: Six New Substances Controlled; Six Resolutions Adopted
- EU Statement at the General Debate of the 68th Session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, 10 March 2025
- Youth and young adult cannabis research – Critical approaches to advancing the field
- Student leads charge for substance use prevention
- UAE ministry warns students against consuming sedatives
- Preventing Tobacco and Alcohol Use Among High School Students Through a Hybrid Online and In-Class Intervention: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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- “Better Without It,” a $3.6 million drug prevention campaign, launched in partnership with 3 universities
- Teenage Abuse of Cough Medicines and Promethazine
- How targeting teenage drug use before it starts seems to be paying off
- DEA Works with Tribal Communities to Advance Drug Education
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- The Drug Crisis Hasn’t Gone Away. The Trump Administration Should Confront It
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- Marijuana ads are enticing kids to try weed, study says
- RFK Jr. says he’ll fix the overdose crisis. Critics say his plan is risky
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- Texas mom who lost son ‘not backing down’ in fight for fentanyl education
- School-Based Substance Abuse Prevention Programs
- Virtual Reality (VR) program helps students handle complex social situations.
- A study identifies the factors that help teens shun drug use
- Irish teens whose friends use cannabis 10 times more likely to consume the drug themselves
- Reported use of most drugs among adolescents remained low in 2024
- AI Can Help Us Choose Words More Carefully When Talking About Addiction
- Majority of U.S. Teens Are Not Drinking, Smoking or Using Marijuana, Study Finds
- Structural brain differences in adolescents may play a role in early initiation of substance use
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- More than a dozen Oregon communities vote to ban psilocybin businesses
- Prevention, Persistence, and the Power of Storytelling: Interviews from the NPN Conference
- Kentucky Attorney General Coleman announces statewide youth drug prevention campaign
- New research explores how campus belonging impacts binge drinking and substance use
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- National Centre for Youth Substance Use Research
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- San Diego County task force releases report on drug prevention programs in schools
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- Walking in Balance: Culture as Prevention in Cherokee Nation
- In Oregon, parents and teachers catalyze drug prevention in schools
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- Teens lead through example, advocating for drug prevention resources
- Drug Prevention Education Video Series Launches in Spanish
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- Hopeful Life Introduces a Life-Changing Program Led by a Former DEA Agent, Empowering Youth to Combat Substance Abuse
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- Opinion: Make drug awareness a requirement to graduate from high school
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- Ushering In A New Paradigm Of Substance Use Prevention—Low-Touch Personalized Interventions In Specialty Care
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- Teens who use cannabis are 11 times more likely to develop a psychotic disorder
- Teens Using Cannabis Are At Higher Risk Of Psychosis, Study Suggests
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- Support local drug education and prevention programs
- DEA Brings Its “One Pill Can Kill Game Over” Tournament to New England for a First-of-Its-Kind Event
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- Is cannabis bad for teens? Here’s what the data say
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- UNODC celebrates the power of sports in preventing violence, crime, and drug use
- Perspective: Iceland Succeeds at Preventing Teenage Substance Use
- INTERVIEW WITH U.S. DRUG CZAR JOHN WALTERS
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- U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use And The Developing Brain
- Uruguay: What have we learned from their experiment? “Not enough”.
- Cannabis in Medicine: An Evidence-Based Approach
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- A new study found that middle school students in small towns and rural areas who received brief interventions had lower rates of prescription drug abuse into late adolescence and young adulthood.
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- New Monitoring the Future Survey Indicates Marijuana Use Is Increasing Among Teens
- Legalizing Pot is Not the Answer!
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- So-called ‘medical marijuana’ results in increased use by youth
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- ER admissions for Ecstasy increase 74% in just four years…and nearly 20% involve children as young as 12
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- CESAR Study Finds 9 Warning Signs of Early Marijuana Use
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- Boozy kids as young as 10 are blocking hospital beds after being admitted for alcohol problems.
- Binge drinking ‘can damage memory skills’ in teen girls
- School-based prevention for illicit drugs’ use
- Substance use outcomes 5½ years past baseline for partnership-based, family-school preventive interventions.
- Teenagers, Friends and Bad Decisions
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- Combining in-school and community-based media efforts: reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents
- Teenage therapy ‘reduces binge drinking’
- News media turns young people off illicit drugs
- The Importance of Family Dinners VI
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- Underage drinking
- U.K. Study Finds Teens Know About Marijuana Harms
- Scottish Social Attitudes Survey 2009: Public Attitudes To Drugs And Drug Use in Scotland
- 20 Children A Day Treated For Alcoholism
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- Patterns and Trends in Inhalant Use by Adolescent Males and Females, 2002-2005
- Brief skills training is effective to curb college drinking
- Study Praises Prevention Based on ‘Competence Skills’
- Calif. Tobacco Prevention Program Credited with Cutting Smoking
- Adolescent Brains Not Ready to Avoid Risks, Study Says
- Alcohol Prevention More Difficult For Young Men To Swallow
- LEGAL HIGHS?
- Study: Parents’ Expectations Can Influence Risky Teen Behavior
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- Parental monitoring can reduce teens’ marijuana use
- Parents encourage youngsters to drink, finds Oz study
- Kids who drink with parents ‘develop alcohol problems’
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- Binge drinking soars among under-14s
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- Potentially fatal combination of youth and alcohol
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- Marijuana use = greater risk of Mental Health – CNN
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- Marketing Linked to College Binge Drinking
- Parent Resources to Prevent Summertime Teen Marijuana Use
- Marijuana Use Among Canadian Teens Reaches Record High
- More Teens See Marijuana Risks
- More Youth in Treatment Due to Marijuana Use
- Raised on Radio: Underage Youth More Likely to Hear Alcohol Ads on Radio than Adults
- Early Sleep Troubles Linked to Later Drug Problems
- “Party School” to Require Alcohol-Misuse Course
- Study Says More Alcohol Ads Reaching Minors
- Study Sees Ecstasy Use Decline Among Teens
- Successful Ad Campaign reduces youth tobacco use
- Summer Time Is the High Time for New Teen Marijuana Use
- Survey on Youth Drug Use
- Teen Brain Wired to Seek Easy Rewards
- Teens Taking More Prescription Drugs Illegally
- Teens Tempt Fate by Combining Inhalants, Other Drugs
- Cannabis dependence: a snapshot
- Pot-Smoking Parents Bad Role Models
- Drug Addiction As A Developmental Disorder
- Unsupervised Teens Do Poorly In School
- Ecstasy Use
- Working Teens More Likely to Drink
- Drug- Driving
- British children use drugs more than ever before
- Youth Alcoholism on the increase
- Cannabis use and mental health in young people: cohort study
- New Harvard/NIDA study examines effect of marijuana use in mid- teens or younger
- Steep rise in abuse of legal drugs
- Family medicine cabinet now newest source
- Relationships Matter: Impact of Parental, Peer Factors on Teen, Young Adult Substance Abuse
- Revised DARE Program Showing Promising Results
- Violent Crime, Smoking Among Teens on Decline
- UK Experiencing High Level Of Child Drug Use
- Four N.C. Kids Bought 165 Cartons of Cigarettes Online
- Ad Campaign Convincing Youth Not to Smoke
- CAMY Says Alcohol Company Websites Attract Minors
- Health Canada Study Worries Quebec Officials Over Increasing Teen Marijuana Use
- Youth Drug Use Declines, But Alcohol, Future Trends are Concerns
- Young smokers five times more likely to have a heart attack
- Kids use nonprescription meds to get high
- America’s Teens Most Depend on Television and Their Parents for Influencing Their Opinion on the News
- Marijuana use is pushing teens into treatment
- Most College Smokers Don’t Quit
- Schoolgirls smoke more than boys
- Teen Drug Abuse Declines Across Wide Front
- Ecstasy Outdated as Young Britons Find New Dance Drugs
- French Teenagers Smoke Joints As Often As They Drink
- Monitoring the Future Survey Results Released
- Health Canada Study Worries Quebec Officials Over Increasing Teen Marijuana Use
- Juvenile Treatment Court Develops Mentoring Program
- Indiana: New Survey Shows Youth are Smoking, Drinking Less, in Most Cases
- Using Marijuana Before Age 21 more likely to lead to addiction
- AMA warns that more teen girls are drinking
- Teenage Girls Targeted for Sweet-flavored Alcoholic Beverages
- Young Smokers at High Risk of Heart Attack
- Youthful Drinkers Have Greater Risk of Becoming Problem Adult Drinkers
- 2003 Survey: Marijuana Use Drops Among Youth, Risk Perceptions Climb
- Report Links Teen Drug Use With Friends’ Sexual Activity
- Experts Concerned About Girls’ Alcohol Use
- Epidemiological Study documents gateway effect of alcohol, tobacco and marijuana
- Most College Smokers Don’t Quit
- Smoking Near Kids Triples Cancer Risk, Study Says
- Parents Overlook Smoking in Protecting Asthmatic Children
- Study Sees Relationship Between Friends, Drug Use
- Tobacco Firms Encourage College Smoking
- Fewer Kids Would Smoke if States Spent More on Prevention
- UVA Study Finds `Cool Kids’ Get In More Trouble
- Young Drinkers More Likely to Have Problems as Adults
- Televised Anti-Tobacco Advertising Decreases Smoking in U.S. Youth
- Study Says More Alcohol Ads Reaching Minors
- Drug trafficking
- Federal Law Would Interfere with Effective Student Drug Testing Policy, Georgia Schools Say
- Feds Sound New Warning About Marijuana Use
- Health timebomb as rising cocaine use threatens heart problems in young
- More Alcohol Ads Reaching Teenage Girls
- Most Teen Smokers Do Want to Quit
- Use of Cigarettes and Alcohol by Preschoolers While Role-playing as Adults
- Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Slows Cognitive Function
- Powdered Alcohol on Sale online
- Recovery Schools Support Sobriety for Young People
- Special K, the horse pill taking over from ecstasy among clubbers
- Study Sees Rise in Alcohol Deaths, DUI in College
- Substantial Declines in Teen Drug use
- Teen Drug Use Continues To Decline
- The European “Schools Health Education Unit”
- Tucson City Buses Help Youngsters Find Safe Haven
- Decline in Teen Smoking Falters as States Spend Less on Prevention
- Cesar Study Finds 9 Warning Signs of Early Marijuana Use
- Teenage Drinking And Smoking – Siblings Are Powerful Role Models
- Addiction danger for child drinkers
- Aggressive teens more likely to try tobacco, pot
- Alcohol damage to babies concern
- Assessing the Impact of Antidrug Advertising on Adolescent Drug Consumption: Results From a Behavioral Economic Model
- Bad Habits May Run in the Family
- Can Just One Cigarette Hook Teens?
- Early Alcohol Users Five Times More Likely to Be Alcohol Dependent in Lifetime
- Fetal Alcohol Exposure: Baby’s First Stool May Provide Clues
- Parents backing for random drug tests in schools
- People who first try marijuana at a young age are more likely to develop mental illnesses
- Symptoms of anxiety and depression in childhood and use of MDMA
- Smoking May Be Linked to Childhood Leukemia
- Teen ER Visits Often Involve Alcohol, Other Drugs
- U.K. Girls Indulge in Violence
- Family Advocacy Network (FAN)
- Dare To Be You
- Child Development Project (CDP)
- Across Ages
- Drugs and crime in the UK
- Culturally Relevant Smoking Prevention for Minority Youth
- Dutch Students Cannabis Use
- Preventive education for adolescents or children
- Trauma and stress in early life increases vulnerability to cocaine addiction in adulthood.
- Opiate and Cocaine Exposed Newborns: Growth
- Dutch Teenagers Get Hooked On Drugs At An Ever Younger Age
- Relationship Between Self- Esteem and Smoking Behavior Among Japanese Early Adolescents: Initial Results from a Three-Year Study
- Teen smoking down, but one in 10 middle-schoolers smokes
- More Teens Treated for Addiction Study Finds
- CASA Survey Underscores Need for Parents and Adult Caregivers to Ensure Kids Stay Drug Free
- Young drinkers want to be shocked
- Record Number of Young People Seek Treatment After Alarming Jump in Cannabis Use
- Alarming Increase In Drug Users Seeking Treatment
- Shortened Family Prevention Programs yield long-lasting Reductions in Adolescent Drug Abuse
- Three Factors Behind Teen Drug Use
- Severe ADHD children at Risk for Later Drug Problems
- Teen Smoking
- More Youth Exhibit Alcohol, Other Drug Dependency
- Using Drugs Even Before They Are In Their Teens
- Callous way the tobacco industry ensnares our youngsters
- Prevention Works
- Religious Beliefs Linked to Decreased Drug Use
- What Americans need to know about Marijuana
- Report Shows Parents Unaware of Children’s Ecstasy Use
- Young Marijuana Smokers at Highest Addiction Risk
- Drugs Spark Gang Violence in Vancouver
- Anti-drug testing bill threatens students
- Drug Use in the USA
- Current Drug testing in Britain
- Concern over cigarette portrayal on screen
- Clicking with Kids: Alcohol Marketing and Youth on the Internet
- Blunt ‘Cigar Papers’ Come In Flavours
- Adolescent Treatment Admissions Increase in 2002
- Drug abuse causing heart attack like symptoms
- Children of Smokers More Likely to Carry Pneumonia Bacteria
- Carcinogens Found in Infant Children of Smokers
- Drug abuse linked to brain hemmorhage in young adults
- Young People’s Alcohol Drinking Influenced By How Much Advertising They View
- Twin study shows cannabis makes moving to hard drugs more likely
- Child drug use ‘aggression link’
- Cannabis ‘linked to aggression’
- Black, White Youths Metabolize Nicotine Differently
- Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and Substance Use Disorders in Adolescents
- Measuring excessive alcohol use in college drinking contexts: The drinking context scale
- Residential Student Assistance Program
- Implementation issues and society’s perception of risk and consequences
- What is prevention ?
- Parents and Drugs
- Letters to the Editor:-
- Cerebral Atrophy In Young Cannabis Smokers
- Chronic Marijuana Smoking And Short-Term Memory Impairment
- Smoking Prevalence In U.S. Birth Cohorts: Influence of Gender and Education
- The real reason why British girls smoke
- Prevention & Education
- Drug use and delinquent behavior among high risk youths
- Persuasive communication in the mass media:
- Drug use and violent crime among adolescents
- College Life:
- What influences young people to take drugs?
- Involving Parents in Drugs Prevention
- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Exposure And Health Effects In Children
- Boys & Girls Clubs in Public Housing Developments: – Prevention Services for Youth At Risk
- A Solution to Pro-Drug Messages on Information Superhighway – Media is Major Risk Factor for Youth Today
- Seattle Social Development Project
- Strengthening Families Program
- Adolescent Alcohol – Prevention Trial (AAPT)
- Study Confirms Drug Prevention Works
- Long Term Impact Of Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E): Results Of 6 Yr .Follow Up.
- Does D.A.R.E. Make A Difference In Students’ Attitudes & Behaviour In The Use Of Alcohol And Drugs?
- Parents’ concerns, attitudes, and needs
- Gateway Theory
- Effects of a Community-Based Prevention Programme on Decreasing Drug Use in High-Risk Adolescents
- Tobacco companies supply film-makers products (‘Product Placement’)
- At the Cinema – Smoking in cinemas increasing, in contrast to real smoking rates
- Why do young people smoke?
- Implications
- Social Factors
- Learning Theory
- Test of socioeconomic status as a predictor of initial marijuana use
- University students’ reasons for NOT drinking: Relationship to alcohol consumption level
- The Smoking Drinking/Drug Connection
- Parent Power
- Back to School Teen Survey – USA
- International Trends in Drug Abuse
- Reasons for drinking versus outcome expectancies in the prediction of college student drinking
- Cocaine use rises markedly among 16-29 year olds
- Alcohol is the leading drug abused by U.S. teens
- Teenage Survey
- NICO Drink
- Legal Attitudes,Permissive Norm Quantities, and Substance Use :
- Cannabis dependence, withdrawal, and reinforcing effects
- Results Mapping: New Ways for Evaluating Prevention Programs for At-Risk
Promoting Good Practice In Prevention