Risk and Protective Factors

Published April 28, 2013

Risk and Protective Factors – Regardless of circumstances, all teens are subject to both risk and protective factors. This video offers an overview of some common factors, and how they ma…

Alkermes Announces Positive Results from Phase 2 Clinical Study of ALKS 5461 …

Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study

Data from this phase 2 study will be presented at the 53(rd) Annual New Clinical Drug Evaluation Unit (NCDEU) Meeting in Hollywood, Fla., May 28-31, 2013. "The improvements in depressive symptoms observed in patients treated with ALKS 5461 in this …
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Ex-Felons Are About To Get Health Coverage – Huffington Post

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Those ailments and the lack of treatment on the outside contribute to the high mortality rate among former prisoners noted in a 2007 study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. … Given the high rate of addiction and mental illness among …
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Results from Toronto marijuana study in 1972 still not public

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He had completed his PhD at Hamilton's McMaster University around the time the Addiction Research Foundation in Toronto went on a small hiring spree. In response to growing recreational drug use, the government rushed to expand the agency's mandate …
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