“It’s time to get the ‘high’ out of higher education.”
Oct. 23, 2008
New York City
Accepting as inevitable America’s college culture of alcohol and other drug abuse threatens not only the present well-being of millions of college students, but also the future capacity of our nation to maintain its leadership in the fiercely competitive global economy. By bringing the nation’s college presidents, trustees, alumni, students and the larger community together with leading journalists for dynamic panel discussions, this important and timely conference will create a dialogue that will offer solutions for how America can stop wasting its best and brightest young people.
Join us and be part of the solution!
Keynote Speaker: Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This CASACONFERENCESM is supported by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and The American Legacy Foundation
with additional support from Alpha Chi Omega.
Missed a CASACONFERENCEsm?
Earlier CASACONFERENCESsm like Sobering Up the High Society: Substance Abuse and Public Policy (February 2008), Double Jeopardy: Substance Abuse and Co-Occurring Mental Health Disorders in Young People (October 2007) or Compound Fractures: Substance Abuse and Trauma (March 2007) are now available on DVD!
CASA in the News
8/15/2008
San Antonio Express-News
Medicine chest fuels drug use
8/14/2008
Christian Science Monitor
Youth Access to Drugs Increases
8/14/2008
San Francisco Chronicle
Parents' prescription drugs pose risk to teens
8/14/2008
CNN - American Morning
Parents help teens get high
8/14/2008
USA Today
Prescription drugs more accessible to teens than beer
8/14/2008
The Washington Post
Teens Cite Ease of Access to Drugs
8/14/2008
WebMD
Teen Drug Use Linked to 'Problem Parents'
8/14/2008
American Psychiatric Association
Survey suggests adolescents may have easy access to prescription drugs
8/14/2008
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Teens' drug of choice is in the medicine cabinet
7/9/2008
ABC News Now Healthy Life
Online Prescription Drug Abuse
7/9/2008
WebMD
Narcotics Sold Online, No Rx Needed
7/9/2008
CBS Evening News with Katie Couric
Prescription for Drug Danger Online
7/9/2008
Associated Press
Study finds addictive drugs easily ordered online
7/9/2008
Reuters
Prescription drugs easily purchased online - study
7/9/2008
The New York Times
Abuses are Found in Online Sales of Medication
7/9/2008
ABCNews.com
Internet is 'Pharmaceutical Candy Store'
7/9/2008
ABCNews.com
Virtual Pushers Target Real Pharmacies
7/9/2008
New York Daily News
Drugs for sale - no prescription required
7/9/2008
CNET News
Study: Prescription-free drug sites still abound
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PROBLEM PARENTS ENABLE TEENS TO ABUSE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, MARIJUANA, ALCOHOL
PRESCRIPTION DRUG, MARIJUANA AVAILABILITY UP SHARPLY
MORE TEENS SAY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS EASIER TO BUY THAN BEER
WASHINGTON D.C., August 14, 2008 - Problem parents—those who fail to monitor their children’s school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children’s schools, and set good examples—increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink, and use illegal and prescription drugs, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIII: Teens and Parents, the 13th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
We are writing a new book, Parent Power – a guide to raising your children drug free. We want it to be the best, most readable, practical, and savvy guide to help parents deal with real world situations they face in raising teenage sons and daughters free of drug and alcohol abuse.
We have been working on this book, tapping into a decade and a half of research, surveys, reports and demonstration programs. And you know what we’ve discovered? We can’t do this without you parents.
We need your help. To be sure we get it right and address the questions you want answered, we need to hear from parents all across America, rich and poor, urban and rural, white, black, Hispanic and Asian, twenty-somethings to fifty-somethings!
We need to learn about your experience in talking – and listening – to your children about alcohol, marijuana, pills, tobacco and other drugs. Help us make this book the best guide ever put together to help parents!
We have just added five NEW questions to the Parent Power forum to learn more about the specific prevention tools and tactics you use to help your children make the right choices about alcohol, marijuana, pills and other drugs.
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.
Meet Charles J. Neighbors, PhD, MBA, CASA’s Associate Director of the Health and Treatment Research and Analysis Division. He received his BA in History and Spanish from Washington University in St. Louis; his MBA in Finance from Indiana University and his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Rutgers University. Dr. Neighbors came to CASA from Brown Medical School where he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and a Research Fellow. Prior to that he was a Financial Analyst at Kraft-General Foods in White Plains, NY.
Click here for a full list of CASA Officers and Senior Staff members.
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
HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by CNN's Lou Dobbs, Join Together, The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show!
Catch Califano's appearances on PBS' The Tavis Smiley Show, The Charlie Rose Show and the Recovery Talk Network's Tuesday, July 10 radio broadcast.
Editorial Reviews
Former First Lady Nancy Reagan
"Califano's book is a call to action and a road map to stem the ravages of substance abuse in America."
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-NY), Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee
Liz Smith, Columnist, NY Post
The O'Reilly Factor
a "great source of information."
New York Review of Books
"Passionate"
James Zirin,
"Bristling with impressive statistics, Califano marshals the evidence persuasively...his sobering and thought provoking book is a call to arms.
New York Non-Profit Press
"HIGH SOCIETY: A wake-up call of America...and treatment providers."
Publishers Weekly
America magazine
“There is much more in this encyclopedic lawyer’s briefs than alcohol and smoking. …(He) powerfully calls attention to the fact that to pay for the messes in personal lives and families and society caused by substance abuse, out of every tax dollar spent in this domain we give 96 cents for more police, judges, emergency rooms, social workers and, especially jails, instead of vastly increasing the amount (4 cents) we give for prevention and treatment.”
Order an autographed copy of HIGH SOCIETY!