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Voluntary After-School Program Can Reduce Alcohol Use Among Middle School Children — Feb 8, 2012

If prevention researchers build programs with developmentally relevant content, and provide this content in an engaging, confidential, and non-judgmental way, it can help middle school-aged children avoid alcohol.

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Which Literacy Skills Are Associated with Smoking? — Feb 1, 2012

Increases in reading skills and numeracy skills substantially increase the odds that an individual will quit smoking.

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A Search-Theoretic Model of the Retail Market for Illicit Drugs — Jan 1, 2012

How legalizing marijuana would affect consumption and tax revenues will depend on many design choices including tax level, incentives for a continued black market, whether advertising is restricted, and how the regulatory system is designed and adjusted.

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Multisite Cost Analysis of a School-Based Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Prevention Program — Sep 1, 2011

The large cross-school variation in the cost of implementing Project CHOICE (a voluntary after-school prevention program for adolescents) highlights the importance of collecting cost information from multiple sites.

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Substance Use and Recessions: What Can Be Learned from Economic Analyses of Alcohol? — Sep 1, 2011

In developed countries, heavy drinkers consume less in a downturn, while light drinkers consume more. This pro-cyclical relationship does not hold for countries where disposable income is low.

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Getting to Outcomes with Developmental Assets: Ten Steps to Measuring Success in Youth Programs and Communities — Aug 25, 2011

For communities and organizations working with youth, this manual offers a straightforward and adaptable plan for building community initiatives and youth programs that get results. Because youth programs and community initiatives are required by their funders to document outcomes, this 10-step process poses different accountability questions. Each step is accompanied with examples from Search Institute and Healthy Communities*Healthy…

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Social Networks of Homeless Youth in Emerging Adulthood — Aug 1, 2011

Interventions need to recognize the importance of social networks of homeless youth in emerging adulthood by enhancing supportive bonds and reducing substance use and risky sex.

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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) — Jul 14, 2011

BRIGHT is a group cognitive behavioral therapy program for individuals with depression and co-occurring alcohol or drug use problems. It can be delivered by non-mental health practitioners, thus providing treatment to those who often do not receive it.

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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook — Jul 13, 2011

Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…

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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT): A Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Depression in Clients with Co-Occurring Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Member's Workbook — Jul 13, 2011

Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for depression in individuals with co-occurring alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT is a 16-week program consisting of four modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, people interactions, and substance abuse — and how it can affect a person's mood. This volume is the group…

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Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2): An Integrated Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Co-Occurring Depression and Alcohol and Drug Use Problems — Group Leader's Manual — Jul 13, 2011

Building Recovery by Improving Goals, Habits, and Thoughts (BRIGHT-2) is a manualized group cognitive behavioral therapy program for co-occurring depression and alcohol and drug use problems. BRIGHT-2 is an 18-week program consisting of three modules that each focus on a specific topic — thoughts, activities, and people interactions — and how it can affect a person's mood and desire to drink or use drugs. This volume is the…

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Growing Internet Use May Help Explain the Rise in Prescription Drug Abuse in the United States — Jun 1, 2011

Online prescription drug sales require better oversight: For every 10 percent increase in high-speed Internet use at the state level, associated treatment facility admissions for prescription drug abuse rose by 1 percent.

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An Effectiveness Trial of Group Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Patients with Persistent Depressive Symptoms in Substance Abuse Treatment — Jun 1, 2011

Providing group cognitive behavioral therapy for depression to clients with persistent depressive symptoms receiving residential substance abuse treatment is associated with improved depression and substance use outcomes.

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Prescription Sharing, Alcohol Use, and Street Drug Use to Manage Pain Among Veterans — May 1, 2011

About one-third of veterans report using alcohol, street drugs, or medication prescribed for others to manage pain.

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Does the Response to Alcohol Taxes Differ Across Racial/ethnic Groups? Some Evidence from 1984-2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System — Apr 1, 2011

This study examines how the effect of alcohol excise taxes on the demand for alcohol varies across different racial and ethnic groups.

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Increased Substance Use and Risky Sexual Behavior Among Migratory Homeless Youth: Exploring the Role of Social Network Composition — Mar 12, 2011

Young homeless "travelers" engage in higher risk behavior than non-traveler homeless and may have different service needs and require different service approaches.

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Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity: RAND's Drug Policy Research Center — Feb 7, 2011

This paper provides a look back at the creation, evolution and growth of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center (DPRC).

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Heterogeneity in the Composition of Marijuana Seized in California — Feb 1, 2011

The chemical compounds found in marijuana deserve more attention as efforts to regulate marijuana for medical and recreational use go forward.

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A Unified Framework for Smoking Assessment: The PROMIS Smoking Initiative — Jan 17, 2011

The PROMIS Smoking Initiative has the goal of developing, evaluating, and making widely available a set of items for assessing smoking behavior and the biopsychosocial constructs that can be used to predict smoking outcomes.

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Motives for Smoking in Movies Affect Future Smoking Risk in Middle School Students: An Experimental Investigation — Jan 1, 2011

Exposure to movies that portray motivations for smoking places adolescents at particular risk for future smoking.

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