| New Alcohol Screening Test
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| 2008-12-08 |
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The RAPS4 alcohol screening test is a four-question quiz designed for busy clinical healthcare offices that has been shown to be effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past 12 months. The RAPS4 test has been found to be highly effective in detecting alcohol dependence in the past year across gender and ethnic groups -- white, black and Hispanic.
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| FINDING CENSUS DATA FOR GRANT WRITING AND COMMUNITY NEEDS ASSESSMENT
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| 2007-08-05 |
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The U.S. Census Bureau has developed a toolkit to help faith-based and community organizations use U.S. Census data to write grant proposals and conduct a community needs assessment. |
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| Pregnant smokers raise their child's risk of stroke, heart attack
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| 2007-03-07 |
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Addiction Medicine | Of Interest To Everyone | Prevention
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Smoking during pregnancy can result in intrauterine growth retardation and low birth weight. Active and passive smoking in young adults also is associated with cardiovascular disease. But until the Dutch study, researchers were unsure whether this is due to a cumulative effect of smoke or whether children are vulnerable at specific periods, such as during gestation. |
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| This Is Your Brain on Drugs, Dad
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| 2007-01-03 |
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While Monitoring the Future, an annual study that depends on teenagers to self-report on their behavior, showed that drug use dropped sharply in the last decade, the National Center for Health Statistics has reported that teenage deaths from illicit drug abuse have tripled over the same period. |
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| Where There's Smoke ....
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| 2006-12-21 |
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Clinicians Corner | Of Interest To Everyone | Treatment Populations
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In recent years there has been a serious re-evaluation of the relationship between cannabis use and mental disorders. Until recently, cannabis has been seen as a relatively safe drug, and this has resulted in the propagationof mixed messages about its status and risk within both clinical settings and across the wider community. |
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| Stumble Weed - The Cannibis Chronicles
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| 2006-10-06 |
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Clinicians Corner | Of Interest To Everyone | Prevention
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An enticing online magazine for aldolescents promoted by the DEA. Another way to get facts across and a possible homework assignment. |
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| Discovery Circles: Strategies for Taking Our Communities Back
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| 2006-06-15 |
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The idea behind the Discovery Circle process is this: the grassroots community itself has the wisdom and knowledge to know what to do to solve its many problems, especially its meth problem. That innate or inherent knowledge resides in grassroots community members, but somehow it must be drawn out of them so that it becomes known by all, allowing the community to pick and choose the best ideas that might work to solve its problems. This process, while focused here on Native American communities, has applicability to communities anywhere. |
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| What is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline?
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| 2006-03-03 |
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The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a national, 24-hour, and toll-free suicide prevention service available to all those in suicidal crisis who are seeking help. Individuals seeking help can dial 1-800-273-TALK (8255). They will be routed to the closest possible provider of mental health and suicide prevention services. |
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| Question regarding prevention programs
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| 2006-01-19 |
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I work as a child/adolescent psychotherapist & specialize, in part, with children of alcoholics/addicts (COAs). Question: Does Hazelton have/market prevention curriculum targeted at the children/families of addicts or do you know of any such materials? |
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| "Special K"
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| 2005-12-27 |
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Because of its low cost, general tolerance and wide accessibility, Ketamine or Special K has become a staple of sorts among drug using gay partygoers. Special K is highly prized for the disassociative high (your mind separates form your body) it gives users and is often used in combination with other drugs such as ecstasy, crystal, cocaine and even heroin. |
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