More Than 1 Million Australian Children Affected By Alcohol Abuse, Study Reveals
Finally, the link between alcohol and the number of Australian children affected by domestic violence that happens because of alcohol has been revealed. A recent study says that more than 140,000 children are victims of alcohol abuse, while on the … Read more on International Business Times AU

NIH holds competition to create better wearable alcohol biosensor
In the search for a wearable or otherwise discreet device capable of measuring blood alcohol levels in real time, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has issued the Wearable Alcohol Biosensor Challenge. The wearable biosensor … Read more on National Institutes of Health (press release)

Alcohol abuse celebrated in online videos, Pitt, Brown University researchers find
Those battling youth drinking cultures that have plagued college campuses for generations might want to add social media to the long list of influences that key predominantly on fun drunks. That's what a team of researchers from the University of … Read more on Tribune-Review

NIH grants funds to research impact of social media on treatment of substance …
Research exploring how social media can be used to advance prevention and treatment of substance abuse has received a boost from the National Institutes of Health. The awards, totaling $ 3 million over three years, will be funded by the Collaborative … Read more on FierceHealthIT

Three-county effort aims to improve mental health, substance abuse treatment
A three-county, year-long effort to improve mental health and substance abuse treatment will begin with a public meeting from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday in the basement auditorium of the La Crosse County Human Services Department at 400 N. Fourth St. in La … Read more on La Crosse Tribune

Treating Substance Abuse May Reduce Future Violence
"Our findings suggest that treatment attendance is very important for these individuals and treatment programs should include interventions that are likely to decrease substance abuse, as this may provide the additional benefit of reducing the risk of … Read more on University Herald

Cherokee Nation to open M drug treatment center – KTUL.com – Tulsa …
(AP) – The Cherokee Nation is opening a new $ 5 million substance abuse treatment center in Tahlequah. Tribal officials will conduct a grand opening Monday for the new Jack Brown Center, which helps treat Native American youth for drug and alcohol … Read more on KTUL

NIH system to monitor emerging drug trends
The University of Maryland's Center for Substance Abuse Research (CESAR) will receive five years of funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, to develop NDEWS. “NDEWS will generate critically … Read more on National Institutes of Health (press release)

Doctor warns of unpredictable ingredients in Spice that can cause bad trips
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Spice refers to a wide variety of herbal mixtures that produce a high similar to marijuana. It's also called K2, fake weed, Yucatan Fire, Skunk, Moon Rocks, and other names and labeled "not for human … Read more on News Sentinel

Lunch lady rises to teachers union leader and takes on all comers, bluntly
Lily Eskelsen García, 59, a telegenic, guitar-slinging firebrand, has made her unlikely rise to the top of the National Education Association as the union faces the most daunting political challenges in its 157-year history. She is already fighting … Read more on Washington Post

UI study: How stoned is too stoned to drive?
Of course, the large majority of that research has been on the deleterious effects, the harmful effects, on cognition, behavior and so forth,” said Steven Gust, special assistant to the director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which was … Read more on Iowa City Press Citizen

Question by riffraff_s: So there was a news report the other day saying “the tragic suicide of a teen” and it angered me.?
So there was a news report the other day saying “the tragic suicide of a teen” and it angered me. Not that the teen killed himself, but that the media always calls it tragic. I think maybe the word pathetic would be better. The death of a husband or wife in the middle of the night is tragic, the loss of a child to disease or accident is tragic. The choice of someone to die because life is hard is pathetic. One of the worse “Tragic death” comments was about Curt Cobain, it wasn’t tragic it was pathetic and down right stupid. I can understand feeling sorry for the family and friends of these selfish twits, but why would anyone feel sorry for them?
EDIT: I have suffered clinical depression since before anyone knew what Prozac was, I was bullied in high school as much as that teen girl was and about a year ago I woke up with my wife dead beside me.

Best answer:

Answer by Meg M
I think the tragedy is for the family and friends of the person who committed suicide. Death is never tragic for the person who is involved…it is tragic for anybody who is left behind without answers, to deal with the sudden absence of a loved one. So it is very tragic indeed.

What do you think? Answer below!

Teen dies and four others are in hospital amid fears they had taken lethal …
A teenage girl has died and four other people were in hospital last night amid fears that they took illegal party drug mephedrone. Helen Henderson, 19, fell ill at a house on … The 16-year-old has since made a full recovery. Earlier this month … Read more on Daily Mail

How to Fix Rehab: Expert Who Lost Son to Addiction Has a Plan
But this spring, through donations made in Bo's honor and a grant from the National Institutes of Health, TRI will finally debut the Consumer Guide to Adolescent Treatment, a sleek web-based review, akin to an interactive college guide, except based on … Read more on NBCNews.com

Rona Ambrose Announces .5-Million Anti-Pot Program
"He wants to make it available for sale, like alcohol and tobacco. But that would dramatically increase its availability to minors and send the message that recreational drug use is acceptable." But the Liberals, through a battery of ads, maintain Tory … Read more on Huffington Post Canada

DC Week: Senate Passes SGR 'Patch'
The Senate on Wednesday passed a budget that includes a 3-month "patch" to delay a 24% cut to physicians' Medicare payments set to begin Jan. 1 under the … The announcement came in a proposed rule released by the agency and doesn't apply to hand … Read more on MedPage Today

Street Watch: drug MDMA seized
A SECOND man has been charged after hundreds of MDMA tablets and a handgun were allegedly found at a Bringelly property earlier this month. Evan Tompsett, 22, was … Ballard is charged with large scale and commercial drug supply and dealing in the … Read more on NEWS.com.au

Teen marijuana use rises as risk perception wanes
Meanwhile, teens' use of other drugs, such as alcohol and cigarettes, continued to decline, according to the National Institutes of Health's 2013 Monitoring the Future Survey, which adds context to its findings with anonymous, written answers from 41 … Read more on Christian Science Monitor

Cocaine Addiction: Patient Behavior Predicts Treatment Success
Similarly, positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging results revealed that the ventral striatal PET signal alone had strong accuracy in predicting individual cocaine addiction treatment response, with a cross-validated correct rate of 82%. "What this … Read more on Medscape

Treating Opioid Addiction
Re “Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side” (“The Double-Edged Drug” series, front page, Nov. 17): Medications used to treat opioid addiction save lives. And they can be misused. The American Society of Addiction Medicine agrees that all providers are … Read more on New York Times

Drug addicts 'can quit smoking' with additional therapy
New research from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, a part of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that people who are addicted to cocaine or methamphetamine are able to quit cigarette smoking while being treated for their substance … Read more on Medical News Today