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Such patients have higher than average smoking rates

A new program funded by the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Moonshot initiative will help patients at Siteman Cancer Center quit smoking. The national smoking rate is about 15 percent, but some 23 percent of Siteman patients smoke.

More people are consuming alcohol in risky ways. That’s not a good trend.

Dr. Bierut talks about multigenerational addiction in a West Virginia Public Broadcasting interview.

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Surveys over a decade indicate positive behavioral shifts

Many states allow medical pot, but few med schools address it

First edition of Hazelden Betty Ford’s new Emerging Drug Trends report looks at higher potencies, synthetics and dabbing

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It’s one of the hardest habits to break, but may be even tougher for one vulnerable group of people who are not getting the help they need to kick this habit.

More than half of young marijuana users encounter online ads, survey finds

Few get treatments, counseling to help them quit

Tatiana Bierut is first author on a paper published in Prevention Science, “Exploring Marijuana Advertising on Weedmaps, a Popular Online Directory” resulting from her 2015 IPH summer research project.

Breaking habit also halves lung cancer risk

Internet technologies may help underserved populations participate in medical research studies, but relying on those technologies to get broader participation isn’t likely to work, a new study suggests.

Most past genetic research has analyzed DNA from women of European ancestry

Fewer adolescents also report using marijuana