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New Evidence Offers Clinicians Better Tools To Help Smokers Quit
An updated clinical practice guideline released by the U.S. Public Health Service has identified new counseling and medication treatments that are effective for helping people quit smoking. 05/15/2008

May 2008 Designated 'National Drug Court Month'
The U.S. Senate passed a resolution designating May 2008 as 'National Drug Court Month' to help increase awareness about the existence and effectiveness of drug courts. 05/12/2008

World Science Fair Adds Addiction Science Award
This year, for the first time, three students will receive awards for exemplary projects in Addiction Science at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the world's largest science competition for high school students. 05/09/2008

2008 Global Conference on Methamphetamine
Touted as the first such gathering, this global conference on methamphetamine seeks to bring together the world's experts working on issues related to methamphetamine to discuss the intersection between methamphetamine use, public health, law enforcement, and civil society. 05/06/2008

New Anti-Meth Campaign for American Indians/Alaska Natives
The Office of National Drug Control Policy and partners have launched the first ever anti-meth public service campaign targeted toward American Indian and Native Alaskan populations. 05/05/2008

Brewers Urged to Stop Marketing Beer Shirts to Young Girls
The nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest urged several Miller Brewing Co., Foster's, and Diageo to stop allowing logos for their beers to be used on tee shirts sold at Forever 21, a retailer popular with teenage girls. 05/01/2008

Critics Say Health Plans Put Lives at Risk by Requiring Prior Approval for Buprenorphine
A major healthcare provider recently announced that it would begin requiring preauthorization for prescriptions of the buprenorphine-based addiction medications Suboxone and Subutex, a move that has raised concern among physicians and patient-advocacy groups about erecting new barriers to treatment.

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