Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly articles from January 5 2009

Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Weekly archives from January 5 2009

Money woes dominate 2009 fears, hopes; silver lining for strong private providers.
January 5, 2009... States, providers, and the recovery movement are going into 2009 with the hope that the incoming Obama administration will be able to add funding to treatment and prevention. Against the backdrop of an economic downturn that has adversely...

Parity, economy topped 2008 news items.(The Year in Review)
January 5, 2009... Last year was marked by a great victory for the addiction treatment field: federal parity legislation passed and signed into law. As of fall of 2009-or, for practical purposes, January of 2010 when the next wave of insurance policies...

Campaign sets goal of serving 1 million new clients.(The Year in Review)
January 5, 2009... A comprehensive national advocacy campaign that ADAW reported on exclusively last summer has officially launched with some ambitious quantitative goals, including $1 billion in new money for substance use prevention over the next five years and...

New brain research could help develop maintenance drugs.
January 5, 2009... New discoveries about the actions of dopamine in the extended amygdala region of the brain could illustrate important mechanisms in addiction and relapse that once understood further could lead to the development of more effective medication...

Alcoholism treatment regimens in phase 2 clinical testing.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(ADial Pharmaceuticals)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Combining the drugs topiramate and ondansetron, University of Virginia Professor Bankole Johnson, M.D., Ph.D., is working to create individualized treatment regimens that would target alcoholics with specific types of genetic polymorphisms. In...

Substance abuse appears a problem among stressed Army recruiters.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The Army continues to increase its recruiting goals even as the pool of potential candidates shrinks, and soldiers assigned to recruiting duty are facing increasing stress. In addition to a recent spate of suicides among recruiters at the...

Only half of New Mexico DWI offenders sentenced to treatment.(STATE WATCH)(driving while intoxicated)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Half of repeat DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) offenders in the state of New Mexico are not receiving the substance abuse treatment that a 2004 law requires, according to researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM). The university...

Fairbanks opens expanded capacity integrated treatment center.(STATE WATCH)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... The new Golden Heart Gateway to Recovery Enhanced Detox Center in Fairbanks, Alaska is possible through collaboration among five agencies, the Daily News Miner reported December 20. This unique funding model, "truly an essential partnership,"...

New York seeks to impose regulations on sober housing.(STATE WATCH)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... A New York state task force is examining ways in which the government might regulate sober housing and impose standards on an industry "beset by overcrowding, unsafe conditions and neighborhood complaints," reported Newsday on December 27....

Reclaiming Futures blog: substance abuse in the juvenile justice system.(RESOURCES)(Brief article)
January 5, 2009... Reclaiming Futures has launched a blog, Reclaiming Futures Every Day, the first national blog to address the topic of adolescents in the juvenile justice system struggling with drug and alcohol use. Reclaiming Futures is a national program...

Coming up ...(Calendar)
January 5, 2009... The Southeast Conference on Addictive Disorders (SECAD) will be held February 9-11 in Atlanta.Visit www.secad09.com for more information and to register. The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) will hold its 19th Annual...

In case you haven't heard ...
January 5, 2009... The Web site eHow.com claims to offer information on "How To Do Just About Everything." A quick experiment with the search engine proves this is just about true. For example, a particularly timely post (written by an eHow editor) offers advice...