Thursday, November 21, 2002

Mental Health Recovery: What Helps and What Hinders?
A report published in October by the National Technical Assistance Center and subtitled "A National Research Project for the Development of Recovery Facilitating System Performance Indicators." (Adobe Acrobat format). The appendices do not appear in the electronic version, and are only available in the print version, which can be ordered throught the NTAC web site.  
  

Surprising Data on Young Heroin Users
Article from the Brown University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter at Medscape based on the treatment charts of over 100 adolescents who were in treatment for heroin dependence at the Caron Foundation Adolescent Center for heroin addiction in 1999.[Viewing Medscape resources requires registration, which is free].  
  

Teens Online
A series of fact sheets in Adobe Acrobat format from the Kaiser Family Foundation "on topics related to children, media and health pulls together the key facts on the amount of time young people spend online; their favorite online activities; how and where young people access the web; and how use varies by age, gender and ethnicity."