Tuesday, March 02, 2004

NIDA Study Finds Alcohol Treatment Medication, Behavioral Therapy Effective for Treating Cocaine Addiction
PR Newswire press release at PsycPORT - "Results of a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, suggest that disulfiram, a medication used to treat alcohol addiction, is effective in combating cocaine abuse. The researchers also conclude in the same study that combining disulfiram with behavioral therapy provides more positive results in treating cocaine dependence than disulfiram in combination with another form of therapy. The research is published in the March 2004 issue of the Archives of General Psychiatry."  
  

238 Atlanta Deaths Due to Drug Abuse in 2002, Feds Say
A SAMHSA press release at Yahoo focusing on data for Atlanta from the new report, Mortality Data from the Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2002, which tracks deaths associated with drug abuse in a number of cities. You can search at Yahoo for similar summaries for other cities. See also, at the DAWN web site, the page indexing the full report by section (in Adobe Acrobat format).  
  

Substance Use, Abuse, and Dependence Among Youth Who Have Been in a Jail or a Detention Center
A SAMHSA report released last week (February 27) which concluded that "Youths who had been in a jail or a detention center at least once in their lifetime were more likely than all other youths to have past year alcohol or any illicit drug abuse or dependence." The link above leads to a page that indexes the report in web (HTML) and Adobe Acrobat format, as well as links to related agency materials and reports.