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Tracy, Roger S. – American Book Company, 1889
This textbook is a course in anatomy, physiology, and hygiene for high schools and advanced classes in common schools. The book complies with many states' law requiring lessons on the nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and their effects.
Descriptors: Textbooks, Anatomy, Physiology, Hygiene
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Laux, John M.; Perera-Diltz, Dilani; Smirnoff, Jennifer B.; Salyers, Kathleen M. – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 2005
The authors investigated the psychometric capabilities of the Face Valid Other Drugs (FVOD) scale of the Substance Abuse Subtle Screening Inventory-3 (SASSI-3; G. A. Miller, 1999). Internal consistency reliability estimates and construct validity factor analysis for 230 college students provided initial support for the psychometric properties of…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Narcotics, Validity, Substance Abuse
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2008
Since the mid-1960s, when illicit drug use burgeoned in the normal youth population, substance use by American young people has proven to be a rapidly changing phenomenon. Smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use are leading causes of morbidity and mortality, both during adolescence as well as later in life. How vigorously the nation responds to…
Descriptors: Stimulants, Substance Abuse, Smoking, Narcotics
Smith, S. Mae; Miller, Eva – 2000
The effects of drug abuse and dependence vary, depending on the type of drug, polydrug use, and characteristics of the user. The influence of genetic, neurochemical, neuropsyiological, sociocultural, and economic factors suggest that the etiology of substance abuse and dependence is multiply determined. Models explaining the causation of substance…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Drinking, Drug Addiction, Individual Characteristics
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Reclaiming Children and Youth: The Journal of Strength-based Interventions, 2004
Five days in East Timor visiting orphanages changed the lives of five young men from Youth Off The Streets. The children in these orphanages run by the Salesian order of the Catholic church are products of the Indonesian invasion, which began in 1975 and continued until 1999. Massive destruction occurred throughout the country. Buildings at the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Narcotics, Service Learning, Residential Institutions
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Silverman, Kenneth; Wong, Conrad J.; Grabinski, Michael J.; Hampton, Jacqueline; Sylvest, Christine E.; Dillon, Erin M.; Wentland, R. Daniel – Behavior Modification, 2005
This article describes a Web-based therapeutic workplace intervention designed to promote heroin and cocaine abstinence and train and employ participants as data entry operators. Patients are paid to participate in training and then to perform data entry jobs in a therapeutic workplace business. Salary is linked to abstinence by requiring patients…
Descriptors: Narcotics, Therapy, Patients, Intervention
Maryland State Department of Education, 2008
Periodically, Maryland's sixth, eighth, tenth, and twelfth graders are surveyed to determine the nature, extent, and trend of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use among adolescents. The "2007 Maryland Adolescent Survey (MAS)" presents the latest findings regarding ATOD use by Maryland's adolescents and compares State and local…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Marijuana, Prevention, Adolescents
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2008
The Monitoring the Future study has provided the nation with a window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illicit drug use, alcohol use, and tobacco use. It has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and adults, a better understanding of the dynamics of factors that drive…
Descriptors: Topography, Student Attitudes, Narcotics, Incidence
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2006
The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) asks persons aged 12 or older to report on their symptoms of dependence on or abuse of alcohol or illicit drugs. This report presents estimates of treatment, treatment need, and perceived unmet need among youths aged 12 to 17. Estimates are presented separately for alcohol use treatment and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Substance Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Abuse
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. – 1995
This booklet provides data and information to show that substance abuse prevention is working and encourages all sectors of society to become involved. Twenty percent of the document features background information about what's working to prevent substance abuse, lists of risk and protective factors, data that show the relationship between…
Descriptors: Drinking, Drug Abuse, Drug Education, Health Education
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Watkins, Katherine E.; Ellickson, Phyllis L.; Vaiana, Mary E.; Hiromoto, Scott – Professional School Counseling, 2006
School counselors need to have accurate and age-appropriate prevention education information in order to counsel teens on drug use. This article presents developmentally specific prevention materials for the most important emerging substances of abuse: Ecstasy, methamphetamine, cough and cold medication, prescription opiates and stimulants, and…
Descriptors: Prevention, School Counselors, Rape, Focus Groups
Johnston, Lloyd D.; O'Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Schulenberg, John E. – National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), 2007
The Monitoring the Future study has provided the nation with a window into the important, but largely hidden, problem behaviors of illicit drug use, alcohol use, and tobacco use. It has provided a clearer view of the changing topography of these problems among adolescents and adults, a better understanding of the dynamics of factors that drive…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Topography, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
Department of Justice, Washington, DC. National Inst. of Justice. – 1994
This report offers data on juvenile drug use and crime so as to increase understanding of the dimensions of drug use among youthful offenders. The report includes information from collaborative efforts at both the Federal and the local levels. Data on male juvenile arrestees and detainees were collected in 12 Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) sites…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attendance, Children, Cocaine
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Palmer, Glen A.; Daiss, Doyle D. – Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2005
A comparison of personality factors on scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) was conducted with a sample of adolescents referred to a residential substance abuse treatment program. A total of sixty adolescents identified with hallucinogen (n = 20), cannabis (n = 20), or methamphetamine (n = 20) as their drug…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Schizophrenia, Personality Assessment, Marijuana
Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2006
This report provides an analysis of recent findings on drug and alcohol use trends among girls. Data indicate that girls have caught up with boys in illicit drug and alcohol use and have actually surpassed boys in cigarette and prescription drug use. Also, more girls than boys are new users of substances. Marijuana is the illicit drug most widely…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Sexual Abuse, Sexuality, Risk
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