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The Latest News from Our Field

We curate a digest of the latest news in our field for advocates, policymakers, community coalitions and all who work toward shaping policies and practices to effectively prevent substance use and treat addiction.

Children with parents in the military are more likely to experience anxiety than their peers. The more time a parent has spent deployed in the past three years, the likelier their children are to struggle at school and home.
Programs have just over a month to apply for a share of $363 million in FY2010 AmeriCorps state and national grants.
Up to 27 grants will be awarded this year to expand treatment capacity in juvenile treatment drug courts, according to a new announcement from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
A new report says that states have largely squandered the funding from the 1998 nationwide tobacco settlement and have cut rather than increased funding for smoking prevention despite the billions received via the settlement.
The tobacco industry and more than 40 states will face off in an arbitration hearing early next year over the industry's contention that it has paid too much money via the 1998 nationwide tobacco settlement.