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Raffi GrossChapter #13 Extra creditThe reasons why I chose this site were TheNational Institute on Drug Abuse(NIDA) is aUnited States federal-government research institute whose mission is to "advance science onthe causes and consequences of drug use and addiction and to apply that knowledge toimprove individual and public health. The institute has conducted an in-depth study of
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Unformatted text preview: proved controversial. Its scope covers drug abuse research in the areas of treatment and prevention, epidemiology, neuroscience, behavioral science, health services, and AIDS. NIDA-supported studies are also published in other journals. NIDA publishes educational materials as well which aim to provide pertinent facts to teenagers who will be making drug use decisions and to parents. This literature has sometimes been used by legalization advocates to advance their points, an example being NIDA's admittal that "many young people who use marijuana do not go on to use other drugs....
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