NIDA Announces 2010 Addiction Science Award Winners at Intel ISEF

Classic Motown music part of anti-drug benefit show in Fraser
The Fraser High School auditorium will come alive with the sounds of live classic Motown music tonight in a fundraiser for an anti-drug program.

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New Florida law promises to crack down on ‘pill mills’
The last thing Cindy Harney’s 20-year-old son said to her before he died of an overdose was that he was hooked on a prescription drug and he couldn’t be helped. It’s for her son Garrett that she lobbied the Legislature to pass a law that would strengthen regulation of Florida’s pain clinics. That bill is now awaiting the governor’s signature. Supporters say the law will go a long way toward …

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NIDA announces 2010 Addiction Science Award winners at Intel ISEF
( NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse ) A project using cutting edge computer modeling to identify potential new medications for nicotine addiction won first place distinction at the annual Addiction Science Awards at this year’s Intel International Science and Engineering Fair — the world’s largest science competition for high school students. Awards were presented at a ceremony last night in …

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