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Article: Rutgers awarded $6 million grant to develop innovative prevention programs.
- Article from:
- Drug Week
- Article date:
- December 5, 2003
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2003 DEC 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rutgers University has received a 5-year, $6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, to establish a center to develop innovative drug abuse prevention programs targeted to young people.
The Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center will be integrated with the Center of Alcohol Studies at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and will focus on developing methods of intervention during a student's key developmental transitional periods.
"We find that when young people move from middle school to high school and from high school to ...