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Performance-enhancing drugs in athletics: Research roundup

2013 roundup of research on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in athletics and academics as well as their potential health effects.

Suicide Among Adults Aged 35-64 Years: United States, 1999-2010

2013 CDC report noting that the suicide rate for middle-aged Americans has been increasing.

Crime, House Prices and Inequality: Examining Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas

2012 study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on how increased policing in Brazil’s favelas can lead to economic benefits and decreased inequality.

Homicide as Infectious Disease: Using Public Health Methods to Investigate the Diffusion of Homicide

2012 study from Michigan State University published in Justice Quarterly on the diffusion of homicide clusters in a low-income city.

Persistent Cannabis Users Show Neuropsychological Decline from Childhood to Midlife

2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on the potential relationship between the long-term use of marijuana and declines in IQ scores.

Subsidized Housing, Public Housing and Adolescent Violence and Substance Use

2012 Indiana University-Purdue University study on public housing, violence and drug use among adolescents.

Opiate Use by U.S. Mothers and Increases in Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome

2012 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on the tripling of rates of babies affected by maternal opiate use over the past decade.

More than 7 Million Children Live with a Parent with Alcohol Problems

2012 government report spotlighting data relating to children of alcoholics in the United States.

Potential Exposure to Anti-Drug Advertising and Drug-Related Attitudes, Beliefs and Behaviors Among United States Youth, 1995-2006

2011 study published in the journal Addictive Behaviors on anti-drug television advertising and self-reported drug use in teenagers.

U.S. Incarceration and Correctional Population Levels: U.S. Justice Department

2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.

Marijuana Use and Motor Vehicle Crashes

2011 metastudy on the link between marijuana use and risk of being involved in a motor vehicle accident.

U.S. State Department: International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, 2011

2011 report from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs on major drug-transit and drug-producing countries and current U.S. policy responses.

School-Based Early Childhood Education and Age-28 Well-Being

2011 report by the University of Minnesota and University of Missouri on long-term outcomes for participants in early child-parent education programs.