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JUUL Use Among Older Teens and Young Adults Soars Juul use among older teens and young adults soared between 2018 and 2019, according to a new study. Read More States Can Now Use Federal Opioid Funds to Tackle Meth and Cocaine A spending bill passed by Congress late last year allows states to use funds earmarked for the opioid crisis to be used instead to tackle the surge in meth and cocaine use, The New York Times reports. Read More   Prescriptions of Benzodiazepines on the Rise, Study Finds Prescriptions for benzodiazepines—used to relieve anxiety, agitation or sleep problems—are on the rise in the United States, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Read More Help Us Continue to Empower Families:   Donate Now Tell a Friend Few People Taking High Doses of Prescription Opioids Fill Naloxone Prescription Fewer than 2% of people taking high doses of prescription opioids have filled a prescription for the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, a new study suggests. Read More Changing Default Computer Settings May Reduce Opioid Prescriptions A new study suggests that simply changing default computer settings in hospitals may reduce opioid prescriptions, HealthDay reports. Read More Other Headlines of Interest How To Kick a Meth Habit (Slate How To! With Charles Duhigg) In Oval Office Meeting, Trump Expresses Regret on Vaping Policy (The New York Times) Weed? CBD? New products, new laws are causing confusion in the workplace (USA Today) AI can help find illegal opioid sellers online. And wildlife traffickers. And counterfeits. (Vox) How Philly plans to combat the nation’s worst big-city opioid crisis in 2020 (The Philadelphia Inquirer) College Students Picking Pot Over Drinking in States Where It's Legal (HealthDay News) A Hallucinogenic Root Is Pitched to Davos Set as Treatment for Opioid Addiction (Bloomberg) Acclaimed scientist gets brain surgery for alcohol addiction (BBC News) What Parents Can Do to Prevent Teens From Driving Drunk (HealthDay News) Vaping Is the Darling of Instagram (HealthDay News) Kelly Ripa Revealed She Stopped Drinking After Ryan Seacrest Became Her Co-Host (Oprah Magazine) Listen: How Vaping Regulations Are Playing Out In The States (Kaiser Health News) Juice WRLD Cause Of Death Was Accidental Overdose (NPR) Jessica Simpson opens up about drinking and pill addiction in new memoir (CNN) Smokers Should Quit at Least 4 Weeks Before Surgery, W.H.O. says (The New York Times)

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