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Tens of millions to receive substance abuse help under Obama’s health reform law
When the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented in 2014, over 32 million Americans will get access to substance abuse and mental health treatments not currently available to the uninsured or through today’s most common health insurance policies. The administration calls this expansion the largest of its kind in a…
Report pushes Pentagon to launch drug rehab program
Reporting on the rising number of soldiers coping with substance abuse problems, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said Monday that the Pentagon should give soldiers access to drug rehab services as part of their standard issue health care. “Better care for service members and their families is hampered by inadequate…
Yale study: Alcohol’s gateway effect much larger than marijuana’s
A Yale study published Tuesday in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that people who used alcohol or tobacco in their youth are almost twice as likely to abuse prescription opiate drugs than those who only used marijuana. Researchers were careful to specify that any youth substance abuse, including just marijuana…
Study: Child abuse causes depression and substance abuse
Children who suffer or witness physical abuse undergo changes to their brain structure that may predispose them to depression and substance abuse later in life, a study said Wednesday. The finding holds promise for early detection and pre-emptive counselling already in adolescence — a crucial phase of physical and emotional…
Study: The ‘gateway drug’ is alcohol, not marijuana
A study in the August edition of The Journal of School Health finds that the generations old theory of a “gateway drug” effect is in fact accurate for some drug users, but shifts the blame for those addicts’ escalating substance abuse away from marijuana and onto the most pervasive and socially…
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