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UPCOMING CASACONFERENCESsm

Raising a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents

This important and timely CASACONFERENCESM will feature keynote addresses by leading experts on substance abuse, adolescence and the family. In CASACONFERENCESM tradition, nationally recognized journalists will moderate four dynamic panels on parents, schools, risk factors, and "the teen's world" (including music, movies, etc.)

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
8:30 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Conference Center
633 Third Avenue, NYC 10017

Keynote Speaker:

Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Register by August 1, 2009 and receive a free copy of 
How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents at the conference. 

This guide to help parents get their kids through the pre-teen, teen and college years drug free 
was written by CASA Founder and Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and will be published in August 2009. 

Register online or by mail/fax.

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CASA in the News

6/21/2009
Tulsa World
"Shot of Reality: Getting state's priorities straight"

6/16/2009
Kaiser Health News
"Checking in With Joseph A. Califano, Jr."

6/5/2009
Insight with Brian Oxman and Kathryn Milofsky
"Interview with CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. on Shoveling Up II"

5/29/2009
Akron Beacon Journal
"Ohio lagging in addiction prevention, study says"

5/28/2009
Inexcess
"CASA President and CEO David L. Rosenbloom on public policy and substance abuse and addiction"

5/28/2009
CBS Radio - The Osgood File
"Getting Our Money's Worth in Treating Substance Abuse"

5/28/2009
Associated Press
"Report:  Addiction costs Ill. taxpayers millions"

5/28/2009
CNN
"Report:  Government not spending much on drug prevention"

5/28/2009
The New York Times
"Governments' Drug-Abuse Costs Hit $468 Billion, Study Says"

5/28/2009
USA Today
"Study:  Substance-abuse funding skimps on prevention"

5/28/2009
HealthKnowItAll
"Substance Abuse Costing America Millions of Dollars"

5/28/2009
News on 6
"Report:  Substance Abuse Costly To State Budget"

5/28/2009
Pioneer Press
"Ruben Rosario:  National snapshot of substance abuse sobering"

5/28/2009
The Oklahoman
"Oklahoma drug, alcohol spending debated"

5/14/2009
The O'Reilly Factor
"Pot Push"

5/13/2009
Insight with Brian Oxman and Kathryn Milofsky
"Interview with CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr."

 

 

 

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.)

Also available in Hardcover ($28 - includes postage and an autograph by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.)

Read the High Society article written by CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and featured in The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Letter, On the Brain.

Read the full press release


HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by CNN's Lou Dobbs, Join Together, The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show !




Download the 2008 CASA Annual Report!

What's New


Read the CASAINSIDE Spring-Summer 2009 newsletter

 



"All the issues they're grappling with today are the issues that were there in 1977."

CASA Chairman and Founder Joseph A. Califano, Jr. talks with Kaiser Health News about health care reform.

 

 

Watch CASA President and CEO David L. Rosenbloom, PhD, discuss public policy and substance abuse and addiction on Inexcess at the 6th UK/European Symposium on Addictive Disorders.

 

NEW CASA* REPORT FINDS FEDERAL, STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS SPEND ALMOST HALF A TRILLION DOLLARS A YEAR ON SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND ADDICTION

OF EVERY FEDERAL AND STATE DOLLAR SPENT, 96 CENTS GOES TO SHOVEL UP WRECKAGE OF ILLNESS, CRIME, SOCIAL ILLS; ONLY 2 CENTS GOES TO PREVENTION AND TREATMENT

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2009 – Substance abuse and addiction cost federal, state and local governments at least $467.7 billion in 2005, according to Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets, a new 287-page report released today by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.

The CASA report found that of $373.9 billion in federal and state spending, 95.6 percent ($357.4 billion) went to shovel up the consequences and human wreckage of substance abuse and addiction; only 1.9 percent went to prevention and treatment, 0.4 percent to research, 1.4 percent to taxation and regulation, and 0.7 percent to interdiction.

Press Release
Chairman's Statement
See Your State's Figures
Watch Press Conference
Windows Media Player is required to watch the press conference - Download it here.

Nearly every child will be offered drugs or alcohol before graduating high school. The good news is that a child who gets through age twenty-one without smoking, using illegal drugs or abusing alcohol is virtually certain never to do so, and kids who learn about drugs from their parents are much likelier to resist these temptations.
 
CASA Founder and Chair Joseph A. Califano, Jr. has written a new book, How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents – a guide to help parents get their kids through the pre-teen, teen and college years drug free. It will be published by the Touchstone / Fireside Division of Simon & Schuster.
 
Your child's world is filled with messages that make smoking, drinking and using drugs seem sexy and cool. They're being influenced by everyone else – make sure they're getting the right messages from you.

How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents will be published in August 2009. Pre-order your original paperback copy today!

 

 

Two blog entries:

1. Hillary Clinton's got it right: "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade."

Read CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr.'s blog and share your comments .

2. It's Spring Break. Do you know what the nation's best and brightest college students are doing?

Read CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano's blog, The Chairman's Corner, to find out and share your comments.


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
 

SPOTLIGHT ON CASA SENIOR STAFF

CASA has the brightest group of professionals ever assembled under one roof to confront the problem of all substance abuse and addiction. The hard work, creativity and commitment of our talented team of professionals are responsible for the extraordinary growth and influence of CASA.

Susan E. Foster, MSW is CASA’s Vice President and Director of Policy Research and Analysis. Ms. Foster is responsible for research and policy analysis on the impact of substance abuse on America’s systems and populations. Projects under her direction include studies of the nation's treatment system; how substance abuse affects state and local budgets, the justice system, schools and colleges, women, young people and the family; the role of religion and spirituality in prevention and treatment; the relation of substance abuse to sexual conduct, eating disorders, gambling, and violence. Prior to coming to CASA she was co-owner of a public policy consulting firm, providing advice and consultation to state and local governments, private agencies and foundations. During the Carter administration, Ms. Foster was Special Assistant to the Secretary and Deputy Under Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs, US Department of Health, Education and Welfare. She has authored publications on a broad range of public policy issues. Ms. Foster has an MSW in social policy from Rutgers University.


Click here for a full list of CASA Officers and Senior Staff members.





 

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