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Task Force Offers Recommendations for Reforming Juvenile Justice System
A national task force has recommended policy changes at all levels of government in order to improve alcohol and drug treatment for youth in the juvenile justice system. 10/10/2008

New Cathinone-Based Drugs Raise Alarm in U.K.
Researchers in London expressed concern over a new family of drugs based on cathinone, the active ingredient in the plant khat. 10/10/2008

NATO Strategy Shifts to Afghanistan Drug Trade
A U.S.-led initiative to authorize attacks on Afghanistan's drug trade was agreed to by NATO defense ministers in a meeting in Budapest. 10/10/2008

Obama Says He Still Smokes Occasionally
Barack Obama has waged a very public battle to quit smoking, and while he has cut down considerably, he hasn't quite broken away from nicotine completely. 10/10/2008

Gas Stations Agree to Ramp Up Safeguards Against Youth Tobacco Sales
Shell Oil Products U.S. and Motiva Enterprises LLC reached agreement with the attorneys general of 46 states and the District of Columbia to amend their policies to prevent underage tobacco sales. 10/09/2008

R.J. Reynolds Tests Dissolvable Camel-Branded Tobacco Products
R.J. Reynolds will introduce 'dissolvable' tobacco products in test markets next year as well as expanding national distribution of its new smokeless tobacco product, Camel Snus. 10/09/2008

New Book Looks at the First Year of Recovery
Addiction treatment and recovery advocate William Cope Moyers has written a new book titled "A New Day, a New Life: A Guided Journal" that explores the rewards and challenges of the first year of addiction recovery. 10/09/2008

Recovery Rallies Draw Big Crowds in NYC, St. Louis
An estimated 5,000 people braved sullen, rainy skies on Sept. 27 to march across the Brooklyn Bridge in a show of strength and support for addiction recovery, just days after a similar event drew thousands of attendees in St. Louis and other communities around the country to mark National Recovery Month.

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