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Intellpuke : This commentary was written by Thomas Straubhaar, a professor of economics at the University of Hamburg and director of the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). It was posted at Spiegel Online’s Web site for Thursday, September 2, 2010. Prof. Straubhaar’s special area of research is international economic relations.

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Hispanic middle school students may be more likely to smoke, drink or use marijuana than their peers of other races and ethnicities, whereas Asian students seem to have the lowest risk, according to new research in the September issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. The study, of 5,500 seventh- and eighth-graders at 16 California schools, found that young Hispanic adolescents …

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The coming weeks mark the return to school for many of our youngest citizens. Sadly the satisfaction of making new friends and obtaining good test scores may be overshadowed by the prospect of substance abuse for some school-aged adolescents. The previous decade has witnessed a two-fold increase in both alcohol consumption and intoxication by adolescents age 12 to 17…

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The Australian Psychological Society (APS) will offer psychological assistance to sportspeople and sporting organisations to deal with drugs in sport as part of a new government initiative. As part of the Australian Government’s $20…

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( Elsevier ) In an effort to combat these startling findings, researchers at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry describe a successful personality-based intervention for substance abuse delivered by teachers in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

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