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E-Cigarettes Deliver Little or No Nicotine, Study Finds A small study conducted at Virginia Commonwealth University concluded that e-cigarettes failed to deliver on their promise of providing a dose of vaporized nicotine with every puff,.02/09/2010
3 Million Uninsured Workers Need Addiction Treatment, SAMHSA Estimates About 16 percent of all U.S. workers without health insurance needed addiction treatment within the past year, but only 12.6 percent were able to access services at a specialty addiction-treatment center, a new survey finds.02/05/2010
Study Says Drinking with Your Kids Doesn't Prevent Abuse Dutch teens who were allowed to drink alcohol at home drank more outside the home than their peers and -- along with other teens who drank -- were at increased risk of developing alcohol problems.02/02/2010
Peer Influence, Other Social Factors Can Affect Drinking Among Older Adults As with underage drinking, social factors can help predict excessive drinking among older adults, according to new research from Rudolf H. Moos of the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System in Palo Alto, Calif.02/02/2010
AA Attendance Cuts Drinking and Depression, Study Finds People who attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings drank less and less frequently than those who did not attend AA, and also were less depressed, according to research based on the federal Project MATCH.02/01/2010
