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Alcohol and marijuana use among teens is on the rise, ending a decade-long decline, a study released March 2 found. “I’m a little worried that we may be seeing the leading edge of a trend here,” said Sean Clarkin, director of strategy at The Partnership for a Drug-Free America, which was releasing the study. “Historically, you do see [...] Admissions to Twin Cities area treatment programs for addiction to methamphetamine (meth) continued to decline in 2008, according to a report on drug abuse trends released today by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The report is produced twice annually to monitor emerging patterns and trends in drug abuse and treatment. Meth-related treatment admissions accounted for [...] Note: The following Graphs, Background, Area Description and Data Sources are an excerpt from the “Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for January 2010, by Carol Falkowski, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services. To download the entire PDF, please go to: http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_147922.pdf Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota [...] On TV, in school and, hopefully, at home, children hear messages over and over warning them about the dangers of abusing drugs. But just when you think maybe the repetition is reaching overkill, statistics like those revealed in a National Institute on Drug Abuse study released this week show the message isn’t getting through to [...] WASHINGTON – As Congress debates the government’s role in health care, a report out today finds that state and federal officials failed to detect millions of dollars in Medicaid prescription-drug abuse. An audit of the government program in five large states found about 65,000 instances of beneficiaries improperly obtaining potentially addictive drugs at a cost of [...] Women in the U.S. are drinking and driving drunk more, experts point out in the wake of a drunk-driving crash in upstate New York where a mother and seven others died. The Associated Press reported Aug. 6 that while most drunk drivers are men, DUI arrests among women rose 28.8 percent between 1998 and 2007, while [...] The finding paves way for a DNA test to screen for those people who are most at risk of becoming drug addicts or alcoholics. In a study of 3,627 volunteers, the researchers found that women of European origin with a mutated version of a gene, known as PKNOX2, were almost twice as likely to become substance [...] |
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