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How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents
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Cost of Substance Abuse to Government Budgets
Substance abuse and addiction cost federal, state and local governments almost half a trillion dollars, according to Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets (PDF).
Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities
Two million full-time college students meet the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence, according to Wasting the Best and Brightest: Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities (PDF).
8/22/2010 - Epoch Times
"Young Teens Becoming More Exposed to Illicit Drugs, According to National Survey"
8/20/2010 - WebMD
"Drugs and Gangs on the Rise in Schools"
8/19/2010 - BusinessWeek
"Teen Survey Finds Gangs, Drugs Common in U.S. Schools"
8/19/2010 - KCBS AM
"Teens and Drugs"
8/19/2010 - CNN's American Morning
"Survey: Gang presence increasing in public schools"
8/19/2010 - C-SPAN's Washington Journal
"Report on Substance Abuse"
8/19/2010 - MYFOXNY.com
"Shocking School Drug and Gang Survey"
8/15/2010 - Los Angeles Times
"'Housing first' and helping the homeless"
8/1/2010 - San Francisco Chronicle
"Tragedy puts UC Berkeley house in spotlight"
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) 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)
Read the full press release
HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show!
What's New
In his latest Chairman's Corner, Califano declares that requiring parents to send children to gang- and drug-infected middle and high schools is state sanctioned child abuse.
August 19, 2010 - CASA releases National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XV: Teens and Parents. This year's teen survey reveals that more than one quarter of public school students attend gang- and drug-infected schools. The 15th annual back-to-school survey also finds a 39 percent jump in middle schoolers reporting drugs used, kept, sold on school grounds.
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