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Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dr. Sally LinowskiDr. Sally Linowski, from UMass Amherst, is this month's guest on Campus Drug Prevention's "Prevention Profiles: Take Five."
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High Schoolers on Heroin Abuse Other Drugs, Too(HealthDay News, June 5) Teen heroin users – specifically high school seniors – are more likely to also abuse an average of five other drugs, according to a new study.
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Boys' Early Pot Use Linked to Adult Drug Abuse(HealthDay News, May 18) Boys who start using marijuana before 15 are more likely to have a drug problem by the time they turn 28 years old, according to new research from the University of Montreal.
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About 30 percent of new heroin users become dependent in the first year(Fox47 News, June 6) About a third of new heroin users develop a dependency on the drug within a year, according to a new Michigan State University study.
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Preventing Youth Opioid AbuseOpioid addiction has reached crisis levels in communities across the nation. An estimated 2 million Americans will suffer from addiction to prescription opioids or illegal opioids in 2018. About two thirds of deadly drug overdoses in 2016 were due to opioids.
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Study finds prenatal marijuana use can affect infant size, behavior(University at Buffalo, May 10) Marijuana use – especially combined with tobacco use – during pregnancy is connected to low infant birth weight and behavior problems, according to researchers from the University of Buffalo.
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More U.S. workers test positive for meth, cocaine and marijuana, study says(Washington Post, May 14) More U.S. workers tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine in 2017, according to numbers from Quest Diagnostics. The company analyzed more than 10 million drug tests.
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Surge in young Americans using marijuana as first drug(The Guardian, May 17) Between 2004 and 2014, the number of American young people between ages 12 and 21 who tried marijuana as their first drug doubled, according to a study.
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Deadly Synthetic Opioids Showing Up in Cocaine and Other Drugs(Healthline, May 11) Powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl are being mixed with non-opioids drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, according to a recent report from JAMA.
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Podcast Interview: Dr. Eric S. Davidson (Eastern Illinois University)Dr. Eric Davidson, from Eastern Illinois University, is our latest guest on "Prevention Profiles: Take Five."
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