Addiction or misuse of alcohol and other drugs leads to approximately 120,000 deaths in the U.S. each year. Improving treatment and preventing substance use can reduce the toll of alcohol and substance use on individuals and society.
Addiction and Substance Abuse
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A Center Fights the Battle Against Addiction
April 1, 2003 | Program Result
From 1992 to 2002 staff at Columbia University, New York established and sustained the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA).
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas
September 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas examines the ways that the gambling industry has designed gambling machines that encourage addiction.
Addiction is a Chronic Disease, Says HBO ADDICTION Project
October 1, 2009 | Program Result
HBO’s Addiction Project increased awareness that addiction is a chronic brain disease through a 90-minute documentary, supplementary films and documentaries, a book, an interactive Web site and podcasts - all promoted with a national outreach campaign.
Addressing Tobacco in Health Care
July 11, 2009 | Program Result
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care supported evaluations of replicable efforts by managed care organizations to integrate effective tobacco-cessation interventions into everyday clinical practice and the basic health care these organizations provide.
Adopting the Substance Abuse Goal
January 1, 1999 | Book
This chapter of the Anthology describes the staff and board processes that led to shaping and adopting the substance abuse goal, and assesses the consequences over the next six years of adopting that goal.
Alcohol Counseling Reflects Higher Quality of Primary Care
September 1, 2008 | Journal Article
In this study, patients were screened for unhealthy alcohol use to determine the affect primary care counseling had on improving their perceived quality of care.
A New D.A.R.E. Curriculum Gets Mixed Reviews
March 17, 2010 | Program Result
A new D.A.R.E. substance abuse prevention curriculum for 7th- and 9th-grade students, designed and evaluated by researchers at the University of Akron, gets mixed reviews.
An Immigrant Community Takes Actions Against Drug Addiction
September 5, 2008 | Program Result
The Head Start program in New York City developed Project Right Start, a family and community-strengthening model that prepares parents to participate actively in community efforts to address substance abuse and related issues.
An Innovator Identifies an Alarming Trend for Young People: Listening to Rap Music Could Be Dangerous to Their Health
May 2, 2008 | Story
Denise Herd used her medical anthropologist background and rigorous quantitative methods to explore the hypothesis that rap music has increasingly glamorized the use of illegal drugs by associating drug use with wealth and high social standing.
Annual Report 2000
April 1, 2000 | Annual Report
The Challenge of Substance Abuse: Ten Years of Grantmaking.