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Article: Initiative Provides Increased Funding for Science-Based Prevention Research.
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- September 10, 2001
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2001 SEP 10 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) --
In remarks at the 2nd National Conference on Drug Abuse Prevention Research, Dr. Alan I. Leshner, director, U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), announced that NIDA will commit $30 million over the next two years to stimulate research that will fill critical gaps in the knowledge and use of science-based drug abuse prevention strategies in communities across the country.
"Our goal is to provide the resources to bring the full power of science to bear on the challenge of developing effective drug abuse prevention programs," Leshner said.
The National Drug Abuse Prevention Research System will ...