Drug Abuse Archive
In a previous post to the NCCPR Child Welfare blog, I discussed how actual experts on substance abuse keep pleading with reporters not to make the same mistakes in covering the opioid epidemic that they made covering the crack epidemic – …
Six Fordham University HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention Research Ethics Training Institute (RETI) fellows recently published articles in a special issue of the most recent issue of Ethics & Behavior. The special issue – guest edited by RETI and …
Okay, here we are the baby boomers (let's call ourselves the "BB's"), as we are not so much babies any more - we range in age from 49 to 67... and yes, that includes me. We, the BB's, according to …
I felt proud to be a Massachusetts resident as I listened to Governor Patrick’s state of the state address a couple of weeks ago. However, unlike the Governors of Vermont and Maine in their state addresses, Governor Patrick never mentioned …
Race, class and gender all shape the pattern of crack cocaine abuse among impoverished African American women. Race is a factor in this case because racial minorities generally live in areas where crack cocaine is more widely used and available than …
