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Annual Teen Survey
For the past 14 years, CASA has surveyed American teens to track their attitudes on drugs and alcohol and those, like parents, who influence them. In that time, through its unique annual "back-to-school survey" CASA has identified factors that increase or decrease the likelihood of teen substance abuse. 2009 Teen Survey (PDF).
Non-Medical Marijuana
Despite reported declines in teen marijuana use, in 2007 almost 11 million teens report having used marijuana. For those using the drug, four alarming trends are of grave concern for parents and teens, according to Non-Medical Marijuana III: Rite of Passage or Russian Roulette (PDF)?
Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities
Almost half of full time college students binge drink and/or abuse prescription and illegal drugs, according to Wasting the Best and Brightest: Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities (PDF). The landmark report finds that nearly two million full-time college students meet the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence, two and one half times the 8.5 percent of the general population who meet these same criteria.
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Behavioral Health Central
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The Parent's Journal with Bobbi Conner
"The Parents Journal" (podcast)
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The New York Times
"Addiction on 2 Fronts: Work and Home"
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Behavioral Health Central
"Put Pain and Profit into Prevention"
HIGH SOCIETY:
How Substance Abuse
Ravages America and What to Do About It
By Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
Published by PublicAffairs Press
Califano Calls for Fundamental Shift in Attitudes and Policies About Substance Abuse and Addiction
ILLEGAL DRUG USE UP FROM 1992 LOWS AMERICANS, 4 PERCENT OF WORLD POPULATION, CONSUME TWO-THIRDS OF WORLD'S ILLEGAL DRUGS Paperback ($12 - includes postage and an autograph by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.) Read the High Society article written by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and featured in The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Letter, On the Brain. 
Also available in Hardcover ($28 - includes postage and an autograph by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.)
Read the full press release
HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show !
Download the 2008 CASA Annual Report!
What's New
Deficit Reduction Right, Left and Middle Can Agree On
In his latest Chairman’s Corner, CASA Chairman and President Joseph A. Califano, Jr. talks about how to reduce the US deficit by addressing substance abuse and addiction. In fiscal year 2010 federal and state government spending on this problem accounts for more than $500 billion to taxpayers and almost all goes to shovel up the consequences of our failure to prevent and treat it.
Read the full post on CASA's Chairman's Corner and share your comments.
William H. Foster Succeeds Califano as President and CEO of CASA NEW YORK, NY, January 27, 2010 – The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University announced today that William H. Foster, PhD, Dean of Maine’s Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service, will become President and Chief Executive Officer of CASA on February 28, 2010, succeeding Joseph A. Califano, Jr., the former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare who founded CASA in 1992. Califano will continue to serve as CASA chairman. “The board is delighted that Bill Foster is returning to lead CASA in the future and to enhance its position as America’s leading institution devoted to confronting and eliminating all forms of substance abuse in our society,” said Califano on behalf of the board.
Book Review "Califano and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse have put together a timely, invaluable resource that will be read, highlighted, bookmarked, and re-read. ...Chapter 14 describes signs of drug use. This chapter should be required reading for every parent in America." Read The Alert Educator review. CASA Chairman and President Joseph A. Califano, Jr. sits down with the ladies of The View.
The Nine Facets of Parental Engagement
CASA has added a Juvenile Justice section to our Web site. In 2004 CASA released its landmark report, Criminal Neglect: Substance Abuse, Juvenile Justice and the Children Left Behind which called for a top to bottom overhaul of state juvenile justice systems. CASA has taken the first steps toward converting the reports findings into large-scale institutional change with the creation of a Model Bill of Rights for Children in Juvenile Justice Systems. States Introducing CASA's Bill of Rights for Children
Califano Continues as Chairman
Learn more at StraightDopeforParents.org.
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