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Public Health Advocacy in the Courts

November 1, 2009 | Journal Article

Public health advocacy in the courts should be an important tool and there are several strategies to accomplish goals however, public health agendas will only be advanced in courts when public health experts partner with legal advocacy experts.

Evidence for Connections Between Prosecutor-Reported Marijuana Case Dispositions and Community Youth Marijuana-Related Attitudes and Behaviors

October 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article examines the relationship between local drug policy, and adolescent attitudes toward and use of marijuana. More severe local drug policy on marijuana use is associated with a decreased likelihood that adolescents will use the drug and an increased likelihood that they will disapprove of marijuana consumption and perceive it as a risky behavior.

Automating Addiction Treatment

January 1, 2009 | Journal Article

This article focuses on the need to envision a more technologically enabled addiction treatment system in the year 2020, describes how this vision of the future might work, and offers ideas about how to achieve such a system.

Welfare Receipt and Substance-Abuse Treatment Among Low-Income Mothers

November 1, 2006 | Journal Article

In this study, the authors explored changing relations between substance use, welfare receipt and substance-abuse treatment among low-income mothers before and after welfare reform. Annual data were examined from mothers aged 18 to 49 years in the 1 ...

Prices, Policies, and Youth Smoking

May 1, 2001 | Journal Article

Unless the nations of the world act, within a generation as many as 10 million people per year will die from tobacco use.