Notes to the Media

• Prism Awards, 3/9/99
  
  
• Clinical Trials Network, 1/19/99
  
  
• Clinical Trials Network - Second Round of Competition, 12/29/99

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Past Releases

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• Drug Use Among Teenagers Leveling Off, 12/17/99.
  
  
• Nicotine Vaccine Shows Promise For Combating Tobacco Addiction, 12/17/99.
  
  
• Club Drugs Take Center Stage in New National Education and Prevention Initiative by NIDA and National Partners, 12/2/99.
  
  
• Club Drugs: Raves, Risks, and Research: National Institute on Drug Abuse and Community-Based Partners will Announce a National Research and Education Initiative about Club Drugs , 11/23/99.
  
  
• National, Local Drug Addiction Experts Join Forces at Seattle Town Meeting To Discuss Substance Abuse Science, Prevention, and Treatment , 11/1/99.
  
  
• Federal Institutes and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Create Tobacco Use Research Centers, 10/18/99.
  
  
• Institute Publishes "Principles Of Drug Addiction Treatment" , 10/12/99.
  
  
• NIH Institute Launches National Drug Addiction Treatment Clinical Trials Network , 9/28/99.
  
  
• Scientists Identify Brain Chemicals Involved in "Switching On" Cocaine Addiction , 9/15/99.
  
  
• Differences In Human Brain Chemistry May Account For Different Responses To Stimulants , 9/1/99.
  
  
• Response to Cocaine Linked to Biological Clock Genes , 8/12/99.
  
  
• Boys Treated With Ritalin, Other Stimulants Significantly Less Likely To Abuse Drugs Later , 8/2/99.
  
  
• Chronic, Heavy Cocaine Use Associated with Long-Lasting Impaired Function, 8/1/99.
  
  
• NIH Institute Opens Treatment Research Center in Baltimore to Help Teens Quit Smoking, 6/17/99.
  
  
• Long-Term Brain Injury From Use of "Ecstasy", 6/14/99.
  
  
• Severity of Problems is Key to Best Type of Treatment For Cocaine Addiction, 6/14/99.
  
  
• Combined Drug Counseling Approach Works In Treating Cocaine Addiction, 6/14/99.
  
  
• Chronic Marijuana Users Become Aggressive During Withdrawal, 4/20/99.
  
  
• National Institute on Drug Abuse and Kmart Kids Race Against Drugs Join Forces in Massive National Drug Awareness Program, 4/13/99.
  
  
• Researchers Discover Function for Brain's Marijuana-Like Compound, 3/22/99.
  
  
• Higher Doses of Methadone Found to be Safe and Effective, 3/16/99.
  
  
• Advances in Imaging and Understanding the Human Brain Featured in NIH Commemoration of Brain Awareness Week, 3/3/99.