April 12, 2012
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Without changes to eating and activity, more than one in five young people could be obese by 2020, researchers predict.
January 1, 2010
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In this chapter of the Anthology, Lee Green, a California-based freelance writer and journalist, tells the story of the College Alcohol Study and of Henry Wechsler, the Harvard researcher who developed and conducted the series of surveys that make up the College Alcohol Study.
January 1, 2005
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This chapter looks in detail at the history and rationale of two RWJF programs: A Matter of Degree: Reducing High-Risk Drinking Among College Students and Reducing Underage Drinking through Coalitions.
January 1, 2004
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This chapter recounts the history of Fighting Back : Community Initiatives to Reduce Demand for Illegal Drugs and Alcohol, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses and the controversy that it sparked.
January 1, 2003
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This chapter of the Anthology focuses on one city trying to address what seemed like an intractable problem. In the 1970s and 1980s, Gallup, N.M. had a frighteningly high rate of alcohol abuse, mostly because of heavy drinking among Native Americans coming to town from the surrounding reservations.