NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, MD on 2011 Monitoring the Future Results
NIDA Director Nora D. Volkow, MD on 2011 Monitoring the Future Results – Since 1975 the MTF survey has measured drug, alcohol, and cigarette use and related attitudes among adolescent students nationwide. Survey participants report their drug use behaviors across three time periods: lifetime, past year, and past month. Overall, 46733 students from 400 public and private schools in the 8th, 10th, and 12th grades participated in this year’s survey. The survey is funded by the NIDA, a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and conducted by the University of Michigan. This video can also be viewed at: www.drugabuse.gov Comments on this video are allowed in accordance with our comment policy: newmedia.hhs.gov
Montgomery County officials examine drug prevention for teens as use soars
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… problems, particularly on the Eastern Shore and in Western Maryland. Nationally, the number of emergency room visits for prescription drug abuse of opiates such as oxycodone doubled from 2004 to 2009, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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Risky Sex Not Unusual for Kids Born with HIV
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The study had support from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the Office of AIDS Research, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National …
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