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Subcommittee on Children on Adolescents Provide input, as appropriate, to NIDA’s increasing

Stay updated on NIDA's child and adolescent issues program, provide input, suggest directions, and examine drug abuse among youth. Explore new youth initiatives, define addiction in adolescents, and present research overviews.

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Subcommittee on Children on Adolescents Provide input, as appropriate, to NIDA’s increasing

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  1. Subcommittee on Children on Adolescents • Provide input, as appropriate, to NIDA’s increasing • programmatic efforts on child and adolescent issues • Assist in conceptualizing issues • Suggest directions and approaches for activities • Participate in planning scientific meetings • Carry out the subcommittee roles in an ongoing way • Not a time-limited task force • Interface with NIDA Child and Adolescent Workgroup in • carrying out roles

  2. Subcommittee on Children on Adolescents • May 16, 2001 • Recommendations from Minutes of Meeting • Expand mentoring program on bridging child development • and drug abuse research • Consider new initiative addressing youth inhalant use/abuse • Continue exploration of youth drug use and the internet • Examine definition of drug addiction as applied to adolescents: implications for new studies • Present overview of NIDA child and adolescent research to Council • Discuss program details with Council Subcommittee

  3. Timeframe: Recent Council Rounds • September 2001 Agenda • Child neglect research at NIH and NIDA • Adolescent drug treatment research • Multi-institute collaborative projects • HIV/AIDS • Non-HIV/AIDS • February 2002 Council • Presentation to full Council on NIDA child and adolescent • research • September 2002 Council • Membership issue • Council in process of examining subcommittee roles

  4. National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse Subcommittee on Children and Adolescents Hortensia Amaro Rand Conger Nancy Kaufman G. Alan Marlatt Kathy Sanders-Phillips Jose Szapocznik

  5. NIDA Pediatric Research Report to Congress • FY 2002 • Pediatric Neuroimaging • Prevention of Drug Abuse • Inhalant Abuse • Adolescent Drug Abuse Treatment • Youth HIV/AIDS and other STDs • Prenatal Exposure to Methamphetamine and MDMA • New Areas of Exploration: Workshops • Adolescent Decision-Making • Youth Drug Use and the Internet • Pediatric Research Mentoring Program

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