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How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents

Joseph A. Califano, Jr. discusses teen drug use and gives helpful parenting advice on WBUR's Here & Now.

Interested in having Joseph A. Califano, Jr. speak in your community? Click here for more details.

 


Cost of Substance Abuse to Government Budgets

Substance abuse and addiction cost federal, state and local governments almost half a trillion dollars, according to Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets (PDF).

 



Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities

Two million full-time college students meet the medical criteria for substance abuse and dependence, according to Wasting the Best and Brightest: Substance Abuse at America's Colleges and Universities (PDF).



CASA in the News

6/24/2010 - Daily News, horaHISPANA
Salud Peligro en el botiquín

6/24/2010 - The Huffington Post
"Medical Marijuana in the NY State Legislature: Sheep's Clothing for the Wolf of Legalization"

July 2010 - Worth
"Children on the Brink"

6/22/2010 - The Huffington Post
"The Tobacco Leopard"

6/18/2010 - NPR's All Things Considered
"Tackling America's Drug Addiction"

6/17/2010 - Associated Press
"Abuse of meds sends as many to ER as illegal drugs"

6/14/2010 - NPR's Morning Edition
"Medicinal Marijuana: A Patient Driven Phenomenon"

6/7/2010 - The Florida Psychiatric Society
Interview with CASA's Susan E. Foster on Behind Bars II

5/24/2010 - The Washington Post
"New strategy to fight teen, adult drug addiction"

5/24/2010 - America
"Criminally Unjust" / podcast

5/16/2010 - Providence Journal
"Califano addresses parents on raising drug-free kids"

5/11/2010 - Christian Science Monitor
"White House drug policy: an ounce more of prevention"


 

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

Paperback ($12 - includes postage and an autograph)

Also available in Hardcover ($28 - includes postage and an autograph)

Read the High Society article written by Joseph A. Califano, Jr. and featured in The Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Letter, On the Brain.

Read the full press release


HIGH SOCIETY recommended reading by The O'Reilly Factor and CBS' The Early Show!




Read the 2009 CASA Annual Report!

What's New

The Greatest Failure of the Medical and Public Health Professions

In his latest Chairman's Corner, Califano pulls no punches as he lays out the greatest failure of the medical and public health professions, and the enormous cost of that failure in lives lost and the incalculable misery of families and friends of individuals whose lives are ruined or lost.

 

CASA's Behind Bars II: Substance Abuse and America's Prison Population Report Finds:


65 Percent of all U.S. Inmates Meet Medical Criteria for Substance Abuse Addiction, only 11 Percent Receive any Treatment

 

Read report (PDF)

Press release

Chairman's Statement

Watch the presentation: Part 1/Part 2/Part3




Interested in How to Raise a Drug-Free Kid: The Straight Dope for Parents?
Check out our new book trailer!

Book Review

"Califano and The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse have put together a timely, invaluable resource that will be read, highlighted, bookmarked, and re-read. ...Chapter 14 describes signs of drug use. This chapter should be required reading for every parent in America."

Read The Alert Educator review.




CASA Founder and Chairman Joseph A. Califano, Jr. sits down with the ladies of The View.

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CASASTARTSM is excited to announce the launch of CASASTART-UPSM a new, dynamic multi-media training program. Communities across the country can now gain access to the excellent quality of the evidence based CASASTARTSM program work by purchasing this sophisticated module. Improve educational outcomes, reduce substance abuse and delinquency among high-risk youth and create safer schools in your community today!

CASA has added a Juvenile Justice section to our Web site. In 2004 CASA released its landmark report, Criminal Neglect: Substance Abuse, Juvenile Justice and the Children Left Behind which called for a top to bottom overhaul of state juvenile justice systems. CASA has taken the first steps toward converting the reports findings into large-scale institutional change with the creation of a Model Bill of Rights for Children in Juvenile Justice Systems.

States Introducing CASA's Bill of Rights for Children


 

 

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