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Health literacy and drug abuse.(HEADS UP: REAL NEWS ABOUT DRUGS AND YOUR BODY)
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In This Installment
* Important facts about how drug abuse and addiction affect health.
* Tips for students on how to take action to stay healthy.
Assessment Tools
Use the Student Activity Reproducible on the back of this page as an assessment quiz to determine what your students have learned about the health effects of drug abuse.
More Information
For more information about the connection between general health and drug abuse and addiction, read NIDA Notes, "Beyond the Brain: The Medical Consequences of Abuse and Addiction," at ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles from HighBeam Research
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Get the facts: drug abuse puts your whole body at risk.
Magazine article from: Science World
; ...Introduce the topic of drug abuse and health by asking...Distribute copies of the Student Activity Reproducible. Tell...read Get the Facts: Drug Abuse Puts Your Whole Body...of the ways in which drug abuse and addiction affect...Research shows ... Drug ...
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Drug abuse and addiction.
Newspaper article from: Minority Nurse Newsletter
; Drug abuse and addiction are often viewed by people...myths and stereotypes that have made drug abuse and addiction a major public health problem...walks of life. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has as a long term goal to help...
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Does your workplace invite drug abuse?
Newspaper article from: The Journal Record
; Drug abuse in the workplace is a pervasive problem...to approach an employee suspected of drug abuse, and that is the very thing that makes...According to the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, nearly 70 percent of Americans who engage...
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NIDA campaign to raise awareness of drug abuse-HIV connection.(Newsletter)(National Institutes of Drug Abuse)
Magazine article from: American Family Physician
; ...new public awareness campaign, Drug Abuse and HIV: learn the link, has been...launched by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse (NIDA) to raise awareness among...young adults of the links between drug abuse and human immunodeficiency virus...
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International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.(Opinion & Editorial)
Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin
; ...Nations has taken the lead in addressing drug abuse and illicit trafficking. It began when...Nations has continued to address the drug abuse and trade issue on the broadest level...Nations observes International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking each June 26...
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How to prevent drug abuse in your workplace. (includes related article)
Magazine article from: HRMagazine
; ...establishing a more effective program to keep drug abuse out of the workplace. In August 1991...problem A good way to begin dealing with a drug abuse problem is to give employees the resources...and claim ownership of the policy on no drug abuse. Companies are finding that ...
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Zambia to Control Drug Abuse in Schools
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; ...Commission (DEC) has pledged to control drug abuse in schools by the year 2000, Sunday Times of Zambia reported. Drug abuse among students and teachers was undermining...teachers promoting or getting involved in drug abuse, saying that teachers should instead...
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 "AAP Sports News (Australia)")
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SPO: Drug abuse is sport s number 1 enemy
Newspaper article from: AAP Sports News (Australia)
; ...Sports News (Australia) 12-24-1999 SPO: Drug abuse is sport s number 1 enemy By Richard...No one exactly knows the birth date of drug abuse, but it has always been around in modern-d...riders of the Festina team admitted to drug abuse with the wonderdrug EPO. That was 21...
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International Conference on Drug Abuse Opens in HK
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; The 2nd International Conference on Drug Abuse opened in Shatin Town Hall here today...said that as there is an increase in drug abuse in Asia, the conference aims to raise...psycho-social and biological effects of drug abuse. She noted that the conference will have...
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DRUG ABUSE TREATMENT AND PREVENTION EFFORTS:RICHARD A. MILLSTEIN
Transcript from: Congressional Testimony
; ...Agency Efforts to Prevent and Treat Drug Abuse Richard A. Millstein Deputy Director National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Department...what science has come to show about drug abuse, its prevention, and its treatment...
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