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1.  More Kids Get Antipsychotic Drugs

2.  Danger Right Under Your Nose

3.  U.S. Death Rate Falls; Smoking Trends May Share Credit  
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Psychiarty 'Bible' Written by Experts With Ties to Pharmaceutical Industry
6.  Nicotinamide: A Way to Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?
7.  FREE:  The Resource Directory for Older People
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1.  More Kids Get Antipsychotic Drugs

Children represent the fastest growing group of users of a new generation of antipsychotic medications, even though the drugs are not approved for their use and serious safety concerns remain
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/121/114397?src=RSS_PUBLIC

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2.  Danger Right Under Your Nose

It's been used by more teens than any other illegal drug except marijuana. It can kill the first time it's used. Kids can get it without any problem.

http://www.drugfree.org/Parent/Resources/Danger_Right_Under_Your_Nose
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3.  U.S. Death Rate Falls; Smoking Trends May Share Credit

U.S. death rates hit an all-time low in 2004 and life expectancy peaked, thanks in part to a decline in smoking. The National Center for Health Statistics reported that the U.S. death rate fell 3.8 percent in 2004, to 801 per 100,000 population, while life expectancy at birth rose from 77.5 years to 77.9 years.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/us-death-rate-falls.html
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:
If you drive with a          Your chances of being killed

BAC in this range:           in a single car crash are

0.02-0.04                      1.4 times more likely
0.05-0.09                      11 times more likely
0.10-0.14                      48 times more likely
0.15 and above              380 times more likely

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5.  Psychiarty 'Bible' Written by Experts With Ties to Pharmaceutical Industry

New research shows that half of the 170 experts involved in drafting the DSM have financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry, which stands to profit from decisions made in defining illnesses and treatments.

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/psychiatry-bible-written-by.html
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6.  Nicotinamide: A Way to Prevent Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

The most common cause of nongenetic mental retardation in the Western world is fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS). About one in 1,000 United States children is born with FAS, which is caused by prenatal exposure to alcohol. Alessandro Ieraci and Daniel Herrera now report that nicotinamide (the amide form of vitamin B3) can prevent some of the deleterious effects of ethanol on developing mice brains, and suggest that nicotinamide might be suitable as a preventative therapy for FAS.

http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0030147
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7.  FREE:  The Resource Directory for Older People

The Resource Directory for Older People is a comprehensive directory of organizations that support the aging community. A cooperative effort of NIA and the Administration on Aging (AoA), the directory is intended to serve a wide audience including health and legal professionals, social service providers, librarians, and researchers, and older people and their families. The directory contains organizational names, addresses, phone numbers, and fax numbers, as well as e-mail and Web site addresses. The directory lists Federal agencies, AoA-supported resource centers, professional societies, private groups, and volunteer programs.
http://www.nia.nih.gov/HealthInformation/ResourceDirectory.htm
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose  and SAMSHA for bringing some of this information to us.

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