“It’s time to get the ‘high’ out of higher education.”
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Oct. 23, 2008
New York City
Accepting as inevitable America’s college culture of alcohol and other drug abuse threatens not only the present well-being of millions of college students, but also the future capacity of our nation to maintain its leadership in the fiercely competitive global economy. By bringing the nation’s college presidents, trustees, alumni, students and the larger community together with leading journalists for dynamic panel discussions, this important and timely conference will create a dialogue that will offer solutions for how America can stop wasting its best and brightest young people.
Join us and be part of the solution!
Keynote Speaker: Nora D. Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)/National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This CASACONFERENCESM is supported by the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)/
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
and The American Legacy Foundation
with additional support from Alpha Chi Omega.
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CASA in the News 8/15/2008 8/14/2008 8/14/2008 8/14/2008 8/14/2008
San Antonio Express-News
Medicine chest fuels drug use
Christian Science Monitor
Youth Access to Drugs Increases
San Francisco Chronicle
Parents' prescription drugs pose risk to teens
CNN - American Morning
Parents help teens get high
USA Today
Prescription drugs more accessible to teens than beer
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August 19, 2008 - Listen to CASA Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer debate Kenyon College President S. Georgia Nugent on whether the national drinking age in the U.S. should be lowered from 21 to 18.
For an in-depth look at the substance abuse situation on America’s college campuses and a host of policy recommendations to change the culture of abuse, download CASA’s comprehensive 231-page report, Wasting the Best and the Brightest: Substance Abuse at America’s Colleges and Universities, the most extensive examination ever undertaken of the substance abuse situation on the nation’s college campuses.
PROBLEM PARENTS ENABLE TEENS TO ABUSE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, MARIJUANA, ALCOHOL WASHINGTON D.C., August 14, 2008 - Problem parents—those who fail to monitor their children’s school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children’s schools, and set good examples—increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink, and use illegal and prescription drugs, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIII: Teens and Parents, the 13th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
PRESCRIPTION DRUG, MARIJUANA AVAILABILITY UP SHARPLY
MORE TEENS SAY PRESCRIPTION DRUGS EASIER TO BUY THAN BEER
CALLING ALL PARENTS…CASA WANTS TO HEAR FROM YOU!
We are writing a new book, Parent Power – a guide to raising your children drug free. We want it to be the best, most readable, practical, and savvy guide to help parents deal with real world situations they face in raising teenage sons and daughters free of drug and alcohol abuse.
We need your help. To be sure we get it right and address the questions you want answered, we need to hear from parents all across America. We need to learn about your experience in talking – and listening – to your children about alcohol, marijuana, pills, tobacco and other drugs. Help us make this book the best guide ever put together to help parents!
NEW have been added to the Parent Power forum!
SPOTLIGHT ON CASA SENIOR STAFF CASA has the brightest group of professionals ever assembled under one roof to confront the problem of all substance abuse and addiction. The hard work, creativity and commitment of our talented team of professionals are responsible for the extraordinary growth and influence of CASA.
Meet Roger D. Vaughan, DrPH, MS is Director of CASA’s Substance Abuse Data Analysis Center (SADAC). Dr. Vaughan is also the Associate Editor for Statistics and Evaluation of the American Journal for Public Health; Assistant Editor for Statistics, Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association; and Clinical Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Biostatistics, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Dr. Vaughan earned his master's degree in applied statistics and his doctorate in biostatistics from Columbia University. He is currently serving as a consulting biostatistician at Rockefeller University and is Director of Evaluation at Harlem Prevention Center and Harlem Children’s Zone Asthma Initiative in New York City.
Click here for a full list of CASA Officers and Senior Staff members.
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
HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by CNN's Lou Dobbs, Join Together, The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show!
Order an autographed copy of HIGH SOCIETY!