The Edge:
A Resource for Iowa's Behavioral Health Professionals
2013 Edition, Volume 9
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Greetings!
The Edge, a news scan for Behavioral Health Professionals in Iowa strives to provide a glimpse of new trends, changes on the horizon in the field of substance abuse and problem gambling, and opportunities to increase your knowledge!
We hope you enjoy this edition of The Edge! Please continue to forward it to colleagues you think would be interested!
The Edge is a weekly media scan that is distributed by the Iowa Substance Abuse Information Center (ISAIC). If you have articles of value that you'd like to share with others across the state, or feedback regarding the content, format, or method of distribution, please email them to Emily at the address below.
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Are you familiar with ISASA?
The Iowa Substance Abuse Supervisors Association fosters the development and professional growth of current and future prevention and treatment supervisors through communication, cooperation, and education of its membership. For more information about ISASA please visit our website: www.isasaiowa.org
Look for our table at the Governor's Conference on April 2, 2013!
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Substance Abuse: Noteworthy Articles and Studies
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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed the maker of the opioid addiction treatment Suboxone that it has approved two generic versions of the drug.
Middle school students are less likely to think using drugs is bad if their parents told them about their own past substance use, a new study finds. Children whose parents warned them not to use drugs were more likely to avoid them, ABC News reports.
Teenagers with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are significantly more likely to have substance abuse issues and to smoke cigarettes, compared with their peers without a history of the disorder, according to a nationwide study.
SRITA is a Stanford research group which analyzes the effects of tobacco advertising, marketing, and promotion. We have collected over 12,000 tobacco advertisements and digitized them, putting them into a searchable online database. You can access the Searchable Database!
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Problem Gambling: Noteworthy Articles and Studies
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| National Problem Gambling Awareness Week! March 3rd - 9th, 2013! The National Council on Problem Gambling (NCPG) is pleased to present the National Problem Gambling Awareness Week (NPGAW) campaign, a grassroots public awareness and outreach campaign. The goal of this campaign is to educate the general public, and health care professionals about the warning signs of problem gambling and raise awareness about the help that is available both locally and nationally!
Munson: Casinos' refusal to go smoke-free puzzling Editorial: None of these casinos, neither the hopefuls nor the existing facilities, has gone smoke-free to gain a competitive edge. Instead, the Iowa gaming industry continues to howl just the opposite, that kicking cigarettes would cost the state as much as $80 million in lost tax revenue and some 1,500 jobs. IGT Proxy Fight Exposes Slot Machines' Loss of Pull International Game Technology (IGT) Chairman Philip Satre, locked in a fight over board seats, said the world's largest slot-machine maker has to invest online because young people don't gamble as much as their parents.... Building Partnerships to Address Responsible Gaming At the National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG), we place a huge emphasis on developing partnerships toward a common goal, and those essential collaborations help us to fulfill our mission. The NCRG's ambitious agenda for 2013 is an example of striving to build partnerships across all sectors to increase awareness and understanding of gambling disorders and responsible gaming.
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Upcoming Trainings and Materials
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ISAIC Training CalendarTrainings around the state in the field of Behavioral Health, including national webinars and online train |
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