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National Drug Facts Week 2015 Educated Teens On Dangers Of Abuse

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January 26 to February 1 2015 was the fifth annual National Drug Facts Week (NDFW) held, which helped teens, young adults and families learn the facts surrounding drugs and drug abuse, directly from the scientific experts. With sponsorship from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), a part of the National Institutes of Health, the…

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Welcome Declines In Teen Prescription Opioid Abuse, Cigarette And Alcohol Use

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Good news for all across the young adult recovery community is the discovery of a decline since 2013 in teen cigarette and alcohol use, as well as the abuse of prescription pain relievers. Stability was also recorded in rates of marijuana use. These are the positive findings of the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA)…

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Use Of Marijuana Up, Other Drugs Down Among American Students

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If there was any recent story that perfectly summed up the changing nature of drug use among America’s young adults – and the associated need for drug addiction programs in North Carolina like Red Oak Recovery to adapt – it was surely the National Institute on Drug Abuse’s (NIDA) most recent annual Monitoring the Future…