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What Does NIDA Mean? The Timeline, Goals, Mission Statement, Important Things To Know About NIDA

NIDA is an acronym for the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The institute was formed as an effort to leverage technological advancements in science to curb rising drug abuse rates in the country.
The mission of NIDA
NIDA was formed with the sole aim of using the power of science and technology to help combat drug abuse [...]

Myths in Beating Hair Drug Tests

People who view hair drug testing as a threat for different reasons look for various ways to pass hair drug tests. The popularity of these methods led to an increasing growth of a market niche that help people pass drug testing. You will find numerous places online that claim to have products that can beat [...]

All You Need to Know About Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is characterized by behavioral and learning disorders & particularly by a persistent pattern of inattention or hyperactivity, as well as forgetfulness, poor impulse control or impulsivity, and distractibility. It is a condition in which it is hard for children to control their behavior and/or pay attention & was first described [...]

Second Hand Smoking Tests: How do they work?

Secondhand smoke or passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a combination of the smoke produced from burning cigarettes and the smoke exhaled by the smoker, from which over 4,000 different chemicals have been identified & around 50 of these chemicals are known carcinogens, a combinatorial effect of which poses a myriad of health [...]

How to Quit Smoking

Nicotine in cigarette smoke causes an addiction to smoking. Nicotine is an addictive compound, just like heroin and cocaine.Most people begin smoking as teens, usually because of curiosity and peer pressure. People with friends and/or parents who smoke are more likely to take up smoking than those who don’t. The tobacco industry’s ads and other [...]

Second Hand Smoking: Medical or Physiological Effects

Secondhand smoke is a combination of the smoke produced from a burning cigarette and the smoke exhaled by the smoker. Second-hand smoke is also known as passive smoke or environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). Mostly the term second-hand smoke is used as opposed to ETS because the latter infers a relationship between tobacco smoke and the [...]

Stop Teenage Smoking with Nicotine Tests

Teenage smoking is a serious problem in the United States and further a field.

 
Every year around 800,000 children under the age of 16 start smoking and continue for life; through taking a firm stance as a parent, you could stop your child from smoking before they become addicted and when it is more difficult for them to [...]

Cancer Causing Agents: Tobacco & Nicotine

Smoking is the single biggest cause of cancer in the world, and accounts for one in four cancer deaths in the States. Smoking is known to cause around eighty percent of lung cancer around the world. The 1996 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse has shown that about 62 million people in the United States [...]