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• Types of Therapy
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• How to Design the Perfect Meditation Room
• Addiction Recovery Through Yoga
• Why Exercise Helps Promote Addiction Recovery
• 5 Ways to Get Better Sleep in Addiction Recovery

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• Prevention Services
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Fact Sheets

• Drug Facts:  Marijuana.  National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2018.
• Drug of Abuse.  A DEA Resource Guide, 2017.
• Wisconsin’s Alcohol Consumption by the Numbers. University of Wisconsin Law School, 2014.
• Alcohol-Related Injuries Kill More Wisconsin Residents than Alcohol-Related Disease Annually. University of Wisconsin Law School, 2015.
• If You Drink, Do You Drink Moderately? University of Wisconsin Law School, 2016.

Local Presentations

• Dr. Bill Zollweg - Summer 2014

Introducing Healthy Wisconsin

• Wisconsin 2013 Behavioral Health Barometer
• Healthiest Wisconsin 2020: Tobacco Use
• Healthiest Wisconsin 2020: Alcohol & Drug Use

Multijuridictional Counterdrug Task Force Training 
This website is an excellent tool for those looking for informative drug videos and classes.

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Great Lakes Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network

View the ATTC's upcoming training schedule by visiting their website.

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AODA Articles and Studies

• Marijuana caused more damage to teens' brains than alcohol, study find
  USA Today, October 6, 2018  |  Marijuana use may pose a greater risk to the developing brains of teenagers than alcohol consumption, according to a new study this week.

• Boston University Study: One Question May Gauge the Severity of Unhealthy Drug and Alcohol Use
  A new study led by a Boston University School of Public Health researcher suggests that a single screening question may not only identify unhealthy use, but can help to determine the level of alcohol and drug dependence just as well—and sometimes better—than longer screening tools.  

• Opiate overdoses bring call for more Drug Courts – Boston, MA
  The recent spike in opiate deaths and overdoses in Massachusetts has created a public-health crisis that demands a speedy, sweeping response, including more courts to deal specifically with drug-addicted defendants, the chief justice of the state’s trial court said Monday. “We can’t do it alone: We need your help,” Chief Justice Paula Carey said at Greenfield Community College, where she addressed an overflow audience at a public forum on opiate abuse. 
  
  

• Commentary: Rx Summit Focuses on National Collaboration
  We have witnessed substance abuse problems spread from community to community, seemingly unabated. The National Rx Drug Abuse Summit is helping to meet challenges head-on through an unprecedented collaboration, says Dan Smoot of Operation Unite.
   

• Many People Who Often Abuse Painkillers Get Them from Doctors, Dealers
  People who frequently abuse opioid painkillers are more likely to get the drugs from a doctor's prescription or a dealer, rather than for free from family or friends, a new study finds.
   

• Law Enforcement Concerned About Potentially Addictive Drug Kratom
  Law enforcement officials are concerned about a potentially addictive drug called kratom, which is sold as a tea in head shops, according to USA Today.
   

• E-cigarettes
  E-cigarettes, promoted as a way to "quit" regular cigarettes, may actually be a new route to conventional smoking and nicotine addiction for teenagers, according to a new University of California at San Francisco study published online today in JAMA Pediatrics.

Source: TopRNtoBSN.com