Substance Abuse News

Teen Smoking Influenced by Middle-School Peers, Parents

April 15th, 2013
Teen Smoking Influenced by Middle-School Peers, Parents New research suggests middle school peer groups influence an adolescent's smoking behavior more ...

Greater Marijuana Use Linked to More Severe Schizophrenia

April 13th, 2013
Greater Marijuana Use Linked to More Severe SchizophreniaNew research reveals that schizophrenia patients with a history of cannabis use have longer hospital stays and a higher rate of hospital readmission. They may also have ...

Anxiety, Alcohol Linked with College Students’ Emotional Ties to Facebook

April 11th, 2013
Anxiety, Alcohol Linked with College Students' Emotional Ties to FacebookThe dramatic success of Facebook has led researchers to study how emotionally involved Facebook users become with the social networking ...

Mental Illness Prevalent in Parents Who Kill Their Children

April 6th, 2013
Mental Illness Prevalent in Parents Who Kill Their Children  A new study finds that close to 40 percent of UK parents who killed their children suffered from some sort of mental illness. Researchers at The ...

Depression May Be Higher Among Current Than Former College Athletes

April 5th, 2013
Depression Among College AthletesNew research discovers rates of depression are significantly higher in current athletes than among former athletes — a finding that may portend a changing collegial environment. "We expected to see a ...

Thinking About Future Rewards Reduces Impulsiveness

April 5th, 2013
Thinking About Future Rewards Reduces Impulsiveness In today’s world, patience and self-discipline can be a challenge. New research probes why is it so hard for some people to resist the least little ...

Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental Illness

April 3rd, 2013
Heavy, Frequent Cannabis Use Linked to Mental IllnessA new study suggests people with mental illness are more than seven times as likely to use marijuana weekly than ...

Parent Deployment Ups Risk of Child Substance Abuse

March 29th, 2013
Parent Deployment Ups Risk of Child Substance AbuseNew research suggests that deployment of a parent puts a child at an increased risk for drinking alcohol and using drugs. University of Iowa ...

Parental Counseling Helps to Slow College Drinking

March 20th, 2013
Parental Counseling Helps to Slow College Drinking A new study by a Penn State researcher discovers talking with a teen about drinking alcohol before they begin college is an effective strategy to ...

Fallout of Baby-First Marriage Impacts More Americans

March 18th, 2013
Fallout of Baby-First Marriage Impacts More Americans Americans are waiting to marry. The average age at which Americans get hitched has increased from their early 20s in 1970 to their late ...