NIDA NewsScan #68

NewsScan #68 includes recently published NIDA-supported research on a variety of issues, including PTSD and marijuana use, how synapses are formed, the effect of family-based interventions on Hispanic youth, a new approach to developing pain relievers, the effect of constructive parenting behaviors, cocaine addiction treatment, how the genes in zebrafish advance knowledge of nicotine addiction and memories and nicotine use.

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NIDA and Federal Partners to Launch National Drug Facts Week

Expanding on the success of its online Drug Facts Chat Day, the National
Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) today announced it is launching National Drug
Facts Week, a new national awareness week designed to bring together teens
and scientific experts to discuss the facts about drug abuse. NIDA is a component
of the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services.

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NIDA NewsScan #67

To coincide with the 2010 International AIDS Conference in Vienna, NIDA has written a special issue of NewsScan on HIV/AIDS which features recent articles on the connection between drug abuse and HIV/AIDS and prevention and treatment strategies, authored by researchers supported by NIDA and other leading research organizations.

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