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PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., chairman and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, discusses a new report about the use of controlled prescription drugs in the U.S. during a news conference on July 7, 2005, at the National Press Club in Washington. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Children who have frequent family dinners are less likely to use marijuana, tobacco and drink alcohol, U.S. researchers said.
WASHINGTON, June 5 (UPI) -- Seven former U.S. health secretaries, including Tommy Thompson and Donna Shalala, sent a letter to Congress calling for a ban on menthol cigarettes.
NEW YORK, July 5 (UPI) -- Pills such as ones allegedly found in Al Gore III's possession are fast becoming the drug of choice among America's young people, drug abuse experts said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Comedy Central pulled a scheduled rerun of the season finale of "South Park" that incensed the Catholic League the first time around.
WASHINGTON, July 8 (UPI) -- Prescription drug abuse is described as epidemic in a Columbia University study that says parents, police and others are still not paying enough attention.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. teens are at much greater risk for smoking, drinking and using drugs if they have sexually active friends and spend more time with a significant other.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Public health advocates want the Bush administration to emphasize cutting teen smoking by half as part of the effort to reduce marijuana use in the war on drugs.
WASHINGTON, April 26 (UPI) -- The spirit of Carry Nation, the hatchet-wielding anti-alcohol campaigner who smashed up saloons in the early 1900s and became a hero of the Prohibition movement, is alive and well at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia Univers
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