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Published: February 2016
This paper presents a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on food addiction, describing its characterizing symptoms, risk factors and underlying neurobiological characteristics, and how these features overlap with those of obesity, eating disorders and substance addiction.
Published: December 2015
This guide helps policymakers understand the effects of addiction and risky substance use and know how to respond. It offers information and recommendations of unprecedented breadth and depth for improving how policymakers working in all levels of government and in the health care, education, justice and social services systems can prevent and reduce addiction and risky substance use in the U.S.
Published: October 2015
This paper summarizes the evidence regarding the prevalence and correlates of nicotine use and addiction, the effects of nicotine on the brain and body, the risk factors for nicotine addiction and the groups most at risk, current prevention and treatment efforts, and the implications of this research for policy and practice.
Published: February 2014
Time to Ban Menthol summarizes the evidence for the role of menthol in increasing the risk of smoking initiation and addiction involving nicotine and decreasing smokers’ chances of successfully quitting. It demonstrates how menthol is disproportionately marketed to and favored by young people, blacks and women. The addition of menthol to tobacco products serves one purpose only: to promote and perpetuate use of these dangerous substances by making them more palatable and easing users down the path to addiction. This paper calls on the Food and Drug Administration to use this evidence to exercise the authority granted by Congress and completely ban menthol additives from all cigarettes and other tobacco products.
Published: November 2012
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse’s Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Implementation and Process Change Manual for Practitioners is designed for physicians, nurses, physicians’ assistants, mental health practitioners, and administrators interested in integrating SBIRT into their practice. The manual provides a comprehensive SBIRT toolkit that focuses on implementing and sustaining SBIRT through process improvement strategies.
Published: September 2012
This report found that teens who had frequent family dinners (5 to 7 per week) were more likely to report having high-quality relationships with their parents. Compared to teens who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer per week), teens who had frequent family dinners were almost 1.5 times likelier to have said they had an excellent relationship with their mother and 1.5 times likelier to have said they had an excellent relationship with their father.
Published: August 2012
This survey aims to identify the situations, individual and family characteristics, and social factors that are associated with teen drug abuse and addiction. Its primary purpose is to track attitudes of teens and those, like parents, who have the greatest influence on whether teens will smoke, drink, get drunk, use illegal drugs, or abuse prescription drugs.
Published: June 2012
Only about 1 in 10 people with addiction involving alcohol or drugs other than nicotine receive any form of treatment.
Published: September 2011
This report found that 58% of teens reported having dinner with their families at least 5 times a week. Compared to teens who had frequent family dinners (5 to 7 per week), those who had infrequent family dinners (2 or fewer) are almost 4 times likelier to have used tobacco; more than twice as likely to have used alcohol; 2.5 times likelier to have used marijuana; and almost 4 times likelier to have said they expected to try drugs in the future.
Published: August 2011
This survey aims to identify the situations, individual and family characteristics, and social factors that are associated with teen drug abuse and addiction. Its primary purpose is to track attitudes of teens and those, like parents, who have the greatest influence on whether teens will smoke, drink, get drunk, use illegal drugs or abuse prescription drugs.
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