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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.

Applications are now being accepted for FY2010 funding under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) grant program supporting the development and use of local recovery-oriented systems of care.
Social-change activists in the U.S. and Canada under age 25 may be nominated for the Do Something Awards, established to honor young 'world changers.'
Three more juvenile drug courts will implement the Reclaiming Futures intervention and treatment model thanks to new grants from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Drug cartels are luring an alarming number of Mexico’s youth into a lifestyle of fast money, drugs and crime.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to set up its new tobacco-regulation unit despite pending lawsuits from tobacco companies such as Reynolds American, Inc., and Lorillard, Inc.
A study comparing five pharmaceutical approaches to quitting smoking found that mixing nicotine patches and lozenges was the most effective, in part because it seemed to best duplicate the highs and lows of nicotine addiction faced by smokers.
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) and academic researchers are examining whether smokeless-tobacco products can potentially be viewed as a safer alternative to smoking.