Schools, County Must Find Dollars to Combat Teen Drug Abuse
Schools, county must find dollars to combat teen drug abuse
Filed under: drug abuse in teenagers
Recently, there was an important dialogue that took place at the Montgomery County Council building. A joint Education and Health and Human Services work session addressed the current status of drug abuse in our schools, notably the epidemic of … Read more on Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online
GRAAB to Conduct a Teen Drug Survey
GRAAB to conduct a teen drug survey
Filed under: information on substance abuse
We are a little behind the curve, but that is because GRAAB had to go back and add prescription drug abuse prevention information,” Southerland said. GRAAB's last survey revealed a high percentage of students involved in prescription drug abuse and … Read more on Cleveland Daily Banner
A New Prescription to Treat Prescription Drug Abuse
A new prescription to treat prescription drug abuse
Filed under: drug abuse news
“The drug of abuse can cause physical neuronal damage that may take a significant period of time to correct,” said MediciNova chief scientific officer, Dr. Kirk Johnson. “So it is expected that MN-166 (the test code for Ibudilast) would be a therapy … Read more on SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break – Dr. Nora Volkow, the head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports.
What Exactly Is a “Human Services” Degree?
Question by jackdaniels16555: What Exactly Is A “Human Services” Degree?
I am looking at a grad school and they have a large “school of human services”. The degrees are all over the place though. They range from mental health counseling to health care administration to emergency management to various public safety degrees. Is “human services” just a code word for “crap we can’t fit in any other field”? It is obvious what other schools with in a university consist of such as “school of psychology” or “school of mathematics” or “school of biological sciences”. What exactly is the field of “human services” entail?