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• 100-percent Contamination Of Euro Notes With Cocaine• 12-Step Treatment More Effective than Alternative, Study Says
• 26 June message from United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
• A Short Walk Helps Smokers Quit
• A Variety of Drug Disorders Has Affected 10% of Americans
• Addicts more likely to have stress disorder
• Alcohol and Brain Size
• Alcohol Worse Than Ecstacy, According To Proposed 'Matrix Of Harm' For Drugs
• Alcoholics Should Avoid Excessive Physical And Psychological Stress During Early Abstinence
• Amphetamine, Cocaine Usage Increase Risk Of Stroke Among Young Adults
• Antidepressants Help Men, But Not Women, Decrease Alcohol Consumption
• Are We Spending Too Much On HIV?
• Armenia to implement new anti-AIDS programme in 2007-11
• Britain to reward addicts for quitting
• Caffeine May Prevent Heart Disease Death In Elderly
• Call for Applications Summer 2007 Public Health/Harm Reduction Training Institute Krakow, Poland
• Canadian Tobacco Firms Want Cigarettes Regulated Like Beer
• Cannabis 'affecting young minds'
• Cannabis-related Schizophrenia Set To Rise, Say Researchers
• CDC Changes Recommendations For Gonorrhea Treatment Due To Drug Resistance
• Children With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder At Risk For Alcohol Problems
• Cigarette Smoke Alters DNA In Sperm, Genetic Damage Could Pass To Offspring
• Circumcision: A Proven Strategy To Prevent HIV, Study Shows
• Coffee Doesn’t Help You Wake Up
• Criteria for Depression Are Too Broad, Researchers Say
• Dealing with Stress as a Treatment for Alcohol Abuse
• Depressed? A Computer May Help
• Depressed? A Computer May Help
• DISCA-Supported Research Finds Depression Predicts Failure to Quit Smoking
• Do Cigarette Warning Labels Work? Results From 4 Countries
• Does A Component Of Niacin Point The Way To Anti-aging Drugs?
• Don’t drink too much if you want to keep your sense of humour
• Drink milk to quit smoking
• Drinking Heavily In College May Lead To Heart Disease Later In Life
• Drug Abuse Prevention: Theater Motivates People To Help
• DRUG REHABILITATION CENTER OPENED IN YEREVAN
• Eat Well, Get Fit, Stop Smoking - Prevent Cancer
• Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces HIV Transmission Risk For Infant
• Female Alcoholics Can Develop Cognitive Problems More Rapidly Than Male Alcoholics
• Former Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey: "Methadone Maintenance Treatment Helps"
• Friendly Young People in Particular Drink Under Pressure
• Half Of HIV Spread By Newly Infected
• Healthy Steps for Young Children: Sustained Results at 5.5 Years
• High Rates Of Latent TB Infection Found In Russian Health Workers
• High-Level U.K. Police Officer Recommends Prescribing Heroin
• Higher Physical Activity Level Slows Lung Function Decline In Smokers
• HIV in drug users unrelated to needle-exchange
• How Smoking Marijuana Damages The Fetal Brain
• How Young Are Influenced To Drink
• Ideology Trumps Science in the Harper Government’s "New" Drug Policy
• Improving of Narcological Clinic in Yerevan
• International Harm Reduction Association presents the ’50 Best’ literature resource
• IOM Recommends FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products
• Italy sounds alarm over cocaine use
• Judge Recommends End to Government Monopoly on Marijuana for Research
• Key Protein For Hepatitis C Virus Entry Identified
• Landmark Addiction Study Finds People Underestimate Power Of Drug Cravings
• Light Drinking May Keep Dementia at Bay
• Long-term Marijuana Smoking Leads To Respiratory Complaints
• Marijuana Cuts Lung Cancer Tumor Growth In Half, Study Shows
• Mechanism Of Hallucinogens' Effects Discovered
• Mechanism Of Hallucinogens' Effects Discovered
• Methadone Substitution Treatment now is available in Armenia
• Methamphetamine use linked to heart condition (By Martha Kerr)
• More Risks for Alcoholics
• Naltrexone may help Crohn's sufferers
• National Programme on Combating Drug Addiction and Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, RA, 2009-2012
• New AIDS Drug Helps Patients Immune to Other Medications
• New AIDS drug shows 'phenomenal' results
• Nicotine Also Hooks Smokers By Enhancing Pleasure Of Experiences, Study Shows
• NIDA Announces New Tools for Drug Abuse Treatment
• People underestimate the power of drug cravings
• Pregnant smokers decrease chance of male baby
• Pregnant Smokers Raise Their Child's Risk Of Stroke, Heart Attack
• Quitting Smoking May Be Harder If Mom Smoked During Pregnancy
• Quitting Smoking Reduces Risk Of Lung Cancer Mortality By 70 Percent
• Recently Licensed Nicotine Receptor Stimulant Trebles Odds Of Stopping Smoking
• Reduction in Nicotine Craving Predicts Ability to Quit
• Researchers Call for More Focus on Excessive Drinking
• Rigorously Controlled Study Supports Effectiveness of Medical Marijuana
• Sex, Drugs and Dating
• Sifting Out Cure For HIV: Special Ceramic Membranes Could Filter Virus From Blood
• Sleep Deprivation Adds Risk to Gambling
• Smoke Alarm: The Truth About Smoking And Mental Illness
• Smokers Make Poorer Workers
• Smokers’ Cravings Explored
• Smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee to stop Parkinson's?
• Smoking Indicator Of Alcohol Misus
• Smoking Produces Changes In Human Brain Like Those In Animals Using Illicit Drugs
• Smoking stays in your genes after you quit
• Spirituality Aids Alcohol Recovery
• Stressed teachers 'taking drugs'
• Study Demonstrates Nicotine's Role In Smoking Behavior
• Study highlights new and cheaper way to treat heroin addiction
• Study Says Psychedelic Drugs Have Different Brain Action
• Subtypes of Alcoholism Discovered
• Surge of suicides among teenage girls in Norway, study finds
• Teen Dieters Likely to Start Smoking
• Teenage Risk-taking: Biological And Inevitable?
• The Substance Abuse Costs to Society & Workplaces Are Huge
• U.S. Exports Failed Policies to Afghanistan
• UK Pop Star Robbie Williams in Rehab for Drug Dependence
• UN Secretary-General calls on Asian governments to amend outdated laws criminalizing injecting drug
• WA: Prescription Drug Overdose Becomes Big Killer
• WHO 34TH Expert Committee Report on Drug Dependence: Re. Buprenorphine
• WHO And UNAIDS Recommend Male Circumcision As A Step Towards HIV Prevention
• Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance
• Workers at Smoky Jobs Double Cancer Risk, Study Says
• World AIDS Day 2008
• Young adults start or increase their cigarette smoking after exposure to a traumatic event
General Articles
• "Healthy" Children with Smoking Parents aren't Really so Healthy• 10 tips for better sleep
• 20 ways to cope with nicotine cravings
• A bried History and Experience of Ecstasy
• A harm reduction approach
• Addiction basics
• Addiction: What does it mean?
• Alcoholism
• Alcoholism...what is it?
• Anxiety is Bad for Your Health
• Caffeine: How much is too much?
• Coping with heavy drug use by a family member
• Don't Be Scammed By A Drug Abuser
• Drug abuse and dependence
• Drugs and Serious Adverse Events
• Hallucinations
• Harsh Truths About Cocaine
• Heroin Deaths
• How drugs affect driving?
• How families can provide support for home detox from illicit drugs
• How to identify a heroin addict
• Insomnia
• Insomnia Among ‘Night owls’
• International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
• Internet addiction more serious than OCD
• List of deaths by accidental drug overdose
• Mixing drugs
• Models of Addiction
• Neonatal abstinence syndrome
• New Theory on Happiness
• nited Nations Secretary General message on World AIDS Day, 1 December 2007
• Online gambling: is addiction one click away?
• Opium Information
• Outside View: End the black AIDS plague
• Over-the-counter pain medications: Reading the labels
• Prescription Painkiller Addiction
• Preventing Abuse Of Prescription Drugs And Pain Medications
• Questions on Psychoactive Drugs
• Recognizing Alcohol Abuse
• Removing Barriers
• Sadness & Depression: What Is the Difference?
• Safe Sex
• Smoking by Actors Sways Behavior
• Solvent abuse
• Substance abuse practitioners ask 'what is recovery?'
• Teenage Drug Abuse - Effects on schooling
• The nature of addiction
• The Physical Effects of Long-Term Stress
• The Power of Music To Reduce Stress
• What Causes Addiction?
• What is LSD?
• What is Marijuana?
• What is Rapid Detox?
• Why steroids are the new teen drug
Drugs
• Alcohol• Amphetamines
• Cannabinoids
• Club Drugs
• CNS depressants
• Cocaine
• Hallucinogens
• Heroin
• Heroin Effects
• Inhalants
• LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
• Marijuana
• MDMA (Ecstasy)
• Meth Overview
• Methadone
• Methamphetamine
• Nicotine
• Opiates
• Opiates and Opiate Addiction
• Opioids
• Phencyclidine (PCP)
• Sedatives and Hypnotics
Harm
• "Somatic" Consequences of Drug Abuse• Addiction and Dependence
• Consequences of Drug Use on Youth
• Drug Overdose
• Hepatitis B and C
• Heroin Overdose
• HIV/AIDS
• Injection Drug Use and Hiv Infection
• Insomnia
• List of drug misuse consequences
• Overdose
• Phlebitis
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• Withdrawal from drugs of abuse
Harm Reduction
• About Methadone• Overdose Management
• Reducing Harm: Treatment and Beyond
• Safer Injection of illicit drugs
• What is harm reduction?
Prevention
• Evidence-Based Prevention Strategies• Evidence-based principles for substance abuse prevention
Treatment
• Detoxification• Differential treatment of dependences
• Drug addiction treatment approaches
• Drug and Alcohol Detoxification
• Methadone Maintenance Treatment
• Rapid Detox
• Suboxone Treatment and Detox - Withdrawal, Abuse and Addiction
• Treatment for Methamphetamine Abuse
• Valium Addiction, Treatment and Withdrawal
For Parents
• 11 Points for Parents to Protect Their Kids• Answering the question: "Did you ever use drugs?"
• Comunication strategies for parents
• Explaining addiction to children
• Heroin informataion for family members
• Introduction to Illicit Drugs
• Is cannabis, or marijuana a "gateway" drug for teenagers?
• Is my cuild using drugs?
• Is Your Child Using a Drug?
• My child has tried an illicit drug
• Responding to teen substance use (an extract)
• Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse
• Understanding Teenagers: Drug Issues.
• Warning Signs: Is Your Child Using Meth?
Patient Education
• Alcoholism• Coping with Urges
• Detoxification Details
• Drug addiction
• Frequently Asked Questions About Addiction
• How Do I Stop Using Heroin
• How Is HIV Infection Spread?
• How to stop drinking alcohol
• Naloxone
• Shhhh...This Is Your Brain On Sleep
• Smoking Reduction Tips
Narcopolisy
• How should drug use be prevented?• Leave the drugs war to cartoons and cops
• National Programme on Combating Drug Addiction and Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs, RA, 2009-2012
• NCEDP: Eight Steps to Effectively Controlling Drug Abuse and the Drug Market
• Selected reports of the Beckley Foundation Drug Policy Programme (BFDPP)
Manuals
• Injecting Drug Use• Internet Addiction Guide
• Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing
Scientific Papers
• Abuse of prescription drugs and the risk of addictionstar• Acute Heroin Overdose
• Adolescent alcohol and cannabis use in relation to peer and school factors
• Buprenorphine versus methadone in the treatment of pregnant opioid-dependent patients...
• Childhood and adolescent antecedents of drug and alcohol problems: A longitudinal study
• Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum
• Motivational interviewing to improve treatment engagement ... A multisite effectiveness study
• Opiate Drugs Increase Vulnerability to Stress
• Oxycontin Addiction, Abuse and Treatment
• Pharmacological content of tablets sold as “ecstasy”: Results from an online testing service
• The Relationship Between Depression and Internet Addiction (by K.S. Young and R.C. Rodg)
Monographies
• Internet Addiction Disorder: Causes, Symptoms,and Consequences (by Jennifer R. Ferris)• Reducing Harm: A Very Good Idea (by Robert W. Westermeyer, Ph.D.)
Trainings
• 23 Relaxation Techniques and Relaxation Exercises You Can Do at Home or Work• Coping with Addiction
• Five Easy Steps to Better Communication
Downloads
• A Framework for Action: A Four-Pillar Approach to Drug Problems in Vancouver (MacPherson)• A review of the evidence-base for harm reduction approaches to drug use (Neil Hunt)
• AATC: Introduction to Evidence-Based Practices in Addiction Treatment
• Addictive Properties of Drugs
• An Integrated Approach to Treatment for Addiction (IBR TCU)
• Beyond Zero Tolerance: A Reality-Based Approach to Drug Education and Student Assistance
• BFDPP: Assessing drug policy principles and practice
• BFDPP: Facing the Future- The Challenge for National & International Drug Policy
• BFDPP: INCB-Watchdog or Guardian of the UN Drug Control Conventions?
• BFDPP: Law enforcement and supply reduction
• BFDPP: Reducing Drug Related Crime: an overview of the global evidence
• BFDPP: Reducing drug related harms to health: an overview of the global evidence
• BFDPP: The Funding of the UNODC: An Unfi nished Jigsaw
• BFDPP: The Measurement of Drug-related Harm
• BFDPP: Towards a review of global policies on controlled drugs
• BFDPP: Treatment for Dependent Drug Use- A Guide For Policymakers
• Demand Reduction: A Glossary of Terms (UNODC)
• Diagnosis, Management, and Treatment of Hepatitis C (AASLD)
• EMCDDA: Annual Report on Drugs 2005
• EMCDDA: Differences in patterns of drug use between women and men
• EMCDDA: Guidelines for the evaluation of outreach work
• Findings and Recommendations for More Effective Drug Education for Youth (Rodney Skager, Ph.D.)
• Lessons Learned in Drug Abuse Prevention: A Global Review (UNODC)
• Methadone Maintenance Treatment. (CDC 2002)
• NADA: Principles of HIV Prevention in Drug-Using Populations
• NAM: HIV and Hepatitis for HIV+ people
• NIDA: Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment
• Safety First: A Reality-Based Approach to Teens and Drugs
• The Addiction Severity Index - Lite (ASI-Lite)
• The Opiate Treatment Index (WHO Collaborative Study)
• Vein Care: Maintain Your Veins
• WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS Substitution maintenance therapy in the management of opioid dependence. 2004
• World AIDS Day 2008
