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Health News // 1 decade ago
Family dinner = Fewer teens using drugs
U.S. teens who eat family dinner fewer than three times a week are more than two times likelier to use marijuana and twice as likely to drink, researchers say.
Health News // 1 decade ago
Children who have family dinner smoke less
Children who have frequent family dinners are less likely to use marijuana, tobacco and drink alcohol, U.S. researchers said.
Science News // 1 decade ago
Ban on menthol cigarettes pushed
Seven former U.S. health secretaries, including Tommy Thompson and Donna Shalala, sent a letter to Congress calling for a ban on menthol cigarettes.
Science News // 1 decade ago
Experts: Pills chic among young people
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.
Entertainment News // 1 decade ago
Comedy Central pulls 'South Park' rerun
Comedy Central pulled a scheduled rerun of the season finale of "South Park" that incensed the Catholic League the first time around.
Science News // 1 decade ago
Prescription drug abuse called 'epidemic'
Prescription drug abuse is described as epidemic in a Columbia University study that says parents, police and others are still not paying enough attention.
Science News // 1 decade ago
Sexual behavior linked to teen drug use
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.
Science News // 2 decades ago
Teen cigarette smoking linked to marijuana
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.
Outside View // 2 decades ago
Outside View: Carry Nation rides again
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
Top News // 2 decades ago
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Years of surveying teens have consistently shown that the more often they have dinner with their parents, the less likely they are to smoke, drink and use drugs

Children who have family dinner smoke less Sep 17, 2008

I wouldn't be surprised if right now at this point in time, there are more kids abusing prescription drugs than abusing marijuana

Experts: Pills chic among young people Jul 05, 2007

It is particularly troubling to me as a Roman Catholic that the segment has run on the eve and day of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a holy day for Roman Catholics

Comedy Central pulls 'South Park' rerun Dec 29, 2005

Parents need to talk to their kids about these issues

Sexual behavior linked to teen drug use Aug 19, 2004

President George W. Bush committed last year to reduce the use of all illegal drugs by 10 percent over two years and 25 percent over five years

Teen cigarette smoking linked to marijuana Sep 17, 2003

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Joseph Anthony Califano, Jr. (born May 15, 1931) is Founder and Chairman of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, an independent non-profit research center affiliated with Columbia University in New York City. He has held many posts in the United States Government including United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from 1977 until 1979. He is now one of only two living former secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare (the other is his predecessor, Forest David Mathews).

Founded in 1992, CASA is now a think/action tank with a staff of more than 60 professionals, including eight Ph.D.s, 21 Masters, and five lawyers. It conducts public policy research and evaluates prevention and treatment programs involving all substances (alcohol, illegal, prescription and performance-enhancing drugs, nicotine) and has mounted demonstration programs at more than 119 sites in 48 cities and counties in 21 states, and one Native American reservation.

He has been Adjunct Professor of Public Health (Health Policy and Management) at Columbia University's Medical School (Department of Psychiatry) and School of Public Health and is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

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