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Program Reduces Girls' Delinquent Behavior
The power of the family and a focus on homework were keys to success.October 01, 2009Adolescent girls can be treated for delinquent behaviors more effectively in a well-supervised family setting than...
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NIDA Reprises Online Chat Day
October 01, 2009NIDA staffers responded to 1,300 questions about drug abuse and addiction during the Institute's second annual Chat Day. Students and teachers from 100 schools in 23 states sent 11,000...
View ArticleNIDA Initiates Pediatrics Symposium on Adolescent Health
April 01, 2009Adolescence and early adulthood are times of self-definition and increasing autonomy. They are also periods of heightened sensitivity to social influences and vulnerability to the onset...
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Among Young Attendees at STD Clinics, Substance Abusers Report More Risky...
October 01, 2007 Patients aged 15 to 24 of a public sexually transmitted disease clinic who had a substance abuse disorder (SUD) were two to three times as likely as those without an SUD to report...
View ArticleJournal Highlights Global Nexus of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS
October 01, 2007One of the most urgent public health goals of addiction researchers is to curb drug abuse behaviors that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS, says a special supplement to Drug and...
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Latest Information on MDMA/Ecstasy, Steroids, and HIV/AIDS Is Available on...
April 01, 2007NIDA has updated its Research Reports on MDMA/ecstasy and steroids and published a new report on HIV/AIDS. The Institute's Research Report series provides educators, parents, clinicians,...
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Uneven Regional Brain Development Contributes to Adolescent Risk-Taking
Along with immature impulse regulation, heightened motivational drive appears to predispose adolescents to risky behavior.April 01, 2007Lori Whitten, NIDA Notes Staff WriterFrom drag racing to abusing...
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Desafío nacional sobre el Coeficiente Intelectual (IQ) de las drogas
Un examen de 12 preguntas que anima a las personas a poner a prueba su conocimiento sobre el abuso de drogas y la adicción. Las respuestas muestran el enlace entre la ciencia y el abuso de...
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Peers Increase Teen Driving Risk via Heightened Reward Activity
March 02, 2012New research on the adolescent brain provides support for laws, existing in some locales, that prohibit teen drivers from having peers as passengers. Drs. Laurence Steinberg and Jason...
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Deadline Approaching: U.S.-Mexico Drug Abuse Prevention Research Fellowship
February 28, 2013Researchers interested in applying for the NIDA U.S.-Mexico Drug Abuse Prevention Research Fellowship need to submit application materials by April 1, 2013.The Fellowship provides...
View ArticleDrugs Contribute to High Rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among...
July 01, 2011In a study of 948 newly arrested youths undergoing criminal justice intake processing in Tampa, Florida, more than 19 percent of girls and 11 percent of boys tested positive for chlamydia,...
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High School Seniors Report Alcohol- or Drug-Impaired Driving Experiences
April 01, 2009About one in three high school seniors has, in a 2-week period, either driven a vehicle after drinking alcohol or taking illegal drugs or ridden as a passenger with a driver under the...
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Meeting Reviews Roles of Drug Abuse and Risky Behavior in HIV
October 01, 2007More than 400 researchers and clinicians gathered in Bethesda, Maryland, May 8-9 to discuss the impact of drug abuse on the spread of HIV. NIDA sponsored the meeting in collaboration...
View ArticleIntervention Strengthens American Indian Teen Mothers’ Parenting
Teen mothers on three American Indian reservations improved on several measures of parenting after participating in Family Spirit, a home-visiting intervention developed with NIDA support. At 12 months...
View ArticleAmong High School Seniors, Driving After Marijuana Use Surpasses Drunk Driving
Within the 2 weeks prior to responding to a nationwide survey, 28 percent of high school seniors were in a vehicle whose driver had been using marijuana or another illicit drug, or had drunk 5 or more...
View ArticleAmong Young Attendees at STD Clinics, Substance Abusers Report More Risky...
Highlights data on the risky sexual behaviors of patients at a sexually transmitted disease clinic who had a substance abuse disorder as compared to those without a substance abuse disorder.
View ArticleJournal Highlights Global Nexus of Drug Abuse and HIV/AIDS
Reviews a journal supplement that compiles studies on drug-related HIV transmission, with a focus on injection drug use, in 16 different localities across the globe.
View ArticleLatest Information on MDMA/Ecstasy, Steroids, and HIV/AIDS Is Available on...
Announces updates to research reports on MDMA/ecstasy and steroids and a new report on HIV/AIDS that provide the latest available information on drugs and drug-related topics.
View ArticleUneven Regional Brain Development Contributes to Adolescent Risk-Taking
Reports on the work of scientists who have linked impulsiveness and risk-taking among adolescents to immaturity of the brain region called the orbitofrontal cortex.
View ArticleDrugs Contribute to High Rates of Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among...
Describe a study of newly arrested youths where researchers found correlations between the youths' prevalence of these sexually transmitted diseases and their cocaine and marijuana use.
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