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Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction
Provides scientific information about the disease of drug addiction, including the many harmful consequences of drug abuse and the basic approaches that have been developed to prevent and treat the disease.
 Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment:
A Research-Based Guide
Provides research-based information about addiction, drug treatment, and recovery for new patients undergoing treatment for addiction, and for their friends and families.
 Principles of Drug Abuse Treatment for
Criminal Justice Populations
NIDA's research-based guide for treating drug abusers within criminal justice settings. Provides 13 essential treatment principles, and includes answers to frequently asked questions, and resource information.
Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents:
A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and
Community Leaders
The 16 fundamental prevention principles are outlined, Discussions include key factors that place youth at risk for drug abuse, gudiance for planning drug abuse prevention programs in the community, applying the prevention principles to programs, and describing the core elements of effective prevention programs.
NIDA Research Report Series: Comorbidity:
Addiction and Other Mental Illnesses
Comorbidity is a topic that stakeholders–– patients, family members, health care professionals, and others––frequently ask about. It is also a topic about which we have insufficient information, and so it remains a research priority for NIDA. This Research Report provides information on the state of the science in this area.
Most Popular Publications
Marijuana: Facts for Teens
Provides teens with answers to frequently asked questions about marijuana,including what it is, who uses it, how it affects a person physically and mentally after short- and long-term use.
Marijuana: Facts Parents Need to Know
Current scientific information for parents.
NIDA Research Report: Prescription Drugs Abuse and Addiction
Describes the dangers of prescription drug abuse and reviews research in this area. Offers approaches for patients and providers to help them avoid the misuse of prescription drugs
NIDA Research Report: Methamphetamine:
Abuse and Addiction
Details of methamphetamine's effects, and the scope of abuse in the United States, how the drug is used and how it differs from other stimulants. Describes medical complications of abuse and current effective treatments
NIDA Research Report: Tobacco Addiction
Presents current epidemiological research data regarding nicotine use, reports on the medical consequences of use. Emphasizes the effects on the brain as well as current research findings about use during pregnancy. Includes treatment approaches.
Mind Over Matter
This series is designed to encourage young people in grades five through nine to learn about the effects of drug abuse on the body and the brain.
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