Early-Onset, Regular Cannabis Use Is Linked to IQ Decline
Regular cannabis use that starts in adolescence strips away IQ, a NIDA-supported study suggests. Participants who initiated weekly cannabis use before age 18 dropped IQ points in proportion to how long...
View ArticleIn Nationwide Survey, More Students Use Marijuana, Fewer Use Other Drugs
Almost one-third (32 percent) of the roughly 42,000 Monitoring the Future survey respondents reported having used marijuana during their lifetime. However, abuse of many other drugs—methamphetamine,...
View ArticleAmong High School Seniors, Driving After Marijuana Use Surpasses Drunk Driving
Within the 2 weeks prior to responding to a nationwide survey, 28 percent of high school seniors were in a vehicle whose driver had been using marijuana or another illicit drug, or had drunk 5 or more...
View ArticleElectronic Questionnaire Quickly Rates Teens’ Substance Use
With a few simple questions, a new screening tool detects whether a teen is likely to have a mild-to-moderate or a severe substance use disorder.
View ArticleA Rapid Teen Substance Use Screening Tool for Clinicians
Answers to three simple questions can help a busy health care provider flag a teen’s problematic use of alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana.
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New Regulations on Flavored Tobacco Products and e-Cigarettes Will Protect...
5/5/16Photo by ©iStock.com/kitiara65/http://istockpho.to/1SWVugODespite great successes in reducing tobacco use over the past five decades, smoking leads to more than 480,000 deaths in the United...
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Link between stress mindset and factors that influence addiction...
5/13/16A project showing how negative attitudes about stress impact key factors that influence vulnerability to addiction, including sleep, emotion and cognition, won a first place Addiction Science...
View ArticleSensation Seeking Promotes Initiation, Impulsivity Promotes Escalation of...
Teens who avidly seek new and intense sensations are more likely to start using substances, but are not more likely to use them regularly within the next 3 years unless they also are prone to devalue...
View ArticleEl fentanilo
¿Qué es el fentanilo?El fentanilo es un opioide analgésico sintético potente que es similar a la morfina pero es de 50 a 100 veces más potente.1,2 Es un medicamento de prescripción de la categoría II,3...
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Athletic teens less likely to transition from prescription pain relievers to...
Science Spotlight7/25/16 Teens who participate in daily sports and exercise activities are less likely to transition from opioid pain reliever use to heroin, according to research funded by the...
View ArticleStudy Questions Role for Marijuana in Teen Users’ IQ Decline
In a recent study, teens who used marijuana lost IQ points relative to their nonusing peers. However, the drug appeared not to be the culprit.
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Recruitment begins for landmark study of adolescent brain development
More than 10,000 children will participate in study of brain, social, emotional, and cognitive development9/13/16Recruitment for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study, the largest...
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Participant Recruitment Now Underway for Landmark Study on Adolescents
9/13/16Adolescence is a time of many physical, behavioral, and social transitions, not to mention changes in the brain. As part of their normal maturation, people in their second decade of life are...
View ArticlePrevention Program Reduces Substance Use By Participants' Friends
The Strengthening Families Program for Youth 10-14 (SFP10-14), an evidence-based intervention that reduces teen substance use, also reduced participants’ friends’ substance use. Two factors that...
View ArticleNonmedical Opioid and Heroin Use Among High School Seniors
This study analyzed the use of use of nonmedical opioids and heroin use among 68,000 high-school seniors participating in the NIDA-funded Monitoring the Future Study between 2009 and 2013.
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Epigenetics takes center stage with this year’s Addiction Science Awards
NIDA announces awardees at the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair5/19/17A project applying the science of epigenetics to demonstrate the health dangers of hookah smoke won a...
View ArticleResearchers Speak: The ABCD Study
In this video, Dr. Terry Jernigan describes the purpose and goals of the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study.
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Energy drinks and risk to future substance use
Science Spotlight8/8/17©iStock/Mauro-MatacchioneNew research suggests that college students who regularly consume energy drinks are at a greater risk for future alcohol use disorder, cocaine use or...
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Registration opens for Drugs & Alcohol Chat Day
Chat Day is part of National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week®11/30/17High schools nationwide can now register for the 11th annual Drugs & Alcohol Chat Day, a web chat between teens and scientists to be...
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Study shows association between non-cigarette tobacco product use and future...
Science Spotlight1/2/18Some teens who use e-cigarettes and other non-cigarette tobacco products report smoking cigarettes one year later, according to recent research funded by institutes within the...
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