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Treatment for Child Welfare Families Continues Amid Lawsuit Over Jail Terms Governor Restores $3 Million to Florida's Treatment Programs Toll‐Free Lines Help Connect Callers to Local Treatment Programs Stimulus Package: Still no $100 Million for Block Grant Case Management Helps Substance Abusing Women on Welfare Briefly Noted State News Resources Business Names in the News Coming up     

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Jails, Probation Speak Out in Favor of Methadone Treatment NY Treatment Providers Get $8.5 Million for Higher Counselor Salaries, Health Insurance Mexican President Demands Changes in Decriminalization Bill Categories of OASAS Awards Programs Receiving OASAS Residential Treatment Program Awards Cost Report, Court Ruling Lend Momentum to Canada SA Efforts COJAC Puts Substance Abuse and Mental Health on Equal Footing, in Philosophy if Not in Dollars AHRQ Study: $2 Billion on Alcohol Abuse for Inpatients Briefly Noted Resources Coming Up     

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First National Standards for Co‐Occurring Credential Comes from IC&RC New Prop. 36 Report Likely to Shape Debate on Funding, Accountability Certification, Licensure and Credentialing Standards for New CCDP Certifications Capoccia, Formerly of RWJF, to Oversee $10 Million in OSI Grants Report Recommendations Focus on Funding Gaps, Treatment Completion County Gives $400,000 for Prometa Treatment Briefly Noted Resources Grants and Funding Coming up     

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Reports Highlight Challenges of Combating Substance Use in Workplace Top Risk Factor for Post‐Treatment Overdose is Previous Overdose Odyssey House Starts Construction on Housing Project for SPMI We can't Deliver a Science Without Skilled Workers… Are We Up to the Challenge? Medicaid Payments for Treatment: TEDS House Committee Approves Parity Bill Briefly Noted State Watch Coming up     

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Future of Private Residential Treatment Called Into Question by CMS Official Combined Effort of OTP Neighbors Will Provide Primary and MH Care SAMHSA Answers Questions on Need for Residential Treatment Study Shows AA Meetings Increase Abstinence in Young Women CSAT Answers Questions about Physician Caseload for Suboxone NASADAD Receives $1.1 Million Grant from SAMHSA Briefly Noted Coming up     

Book Review

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Kim Witte, Gary Meyer, and Dennis Martell. Effective Health Risk Messages: A Step-by-Step Guide: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage; 2000. 216 pps; paper, $24.95, cloth, $64.95.     

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RWJF Departure from Addiction Grants Means $50 Million a Year Less for the Field Addiction Clinicians Tread Carefully Amid Medication Options Recovery Inside San Quentin Prison, Training Inmate Counselors What's Happening on Capitol Hill: Block Grant Appropriations Child Welfare Bill Includes $40 Million for FY 2007 for Treatment Advocacy Alert: Bring Parity to a Vote Briefly Noted Business To the Editor Coming Up     

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New Hampshire Issues Ambitious Blueprint for Addiction Prevention and Treatment Wyoming Merges Substance Abuse and Mental Health Units Prop. 36 Yields Major Savings When Treatment Is Completed False Positives and False Negatives Found in Youth Drug Tests AATOD's 5‐Year Plan Includes Support for Buprenorphine, Risk Planning Briefly Noted Names in the News Call for Applications Coming up     

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Knowledge of Mental Disorders Required for Client Service, Counselor Careers Peer‐Led Services Begin to Emerge as Adjunct to Treatment NAADAC Workforce Development Conference Focus on Attracting and Retaining Counselors Peer Session Encourages Abstinence N.J. Treatmentproviders Group Seeks Restoration of Terminated Grant New Endorsement for Adolescent Services Coming from NAADAC Open Meeting on Medicare Drug Rule Effect's on Substance Abuse Substance Abuse Treatment Included in $7.2 Million for Jail Diversion Programs for Mentally Ill Briefly Noted Resources Coming Up     

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Treating Inhalant Abuse by Prevention and Raising Parental Awareness New NREPP Will Be Decision Tool Treatment Approaches Girls Age 12–17 More Likely Than Boys to Initiate Alcohol, Marijuana, or Cigarette Use Online Advice on Problem Drinking Could Fulfill Unmet Need CRC: Online Treatment Service Making Steady Progress Priority Addiction Programs for States Set to Lose $1.3 Billion Since 2004 Briefly Noted Resources Call for Participation Names in the News Coming Up     

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Mothers Addicted to Meth Face Losing their Children; Crisis Looms in Child Welfare Systems Two Studies Show Disparate Triggers for Gambling Who Are the Friends of NIDA? Meth Treatment Works: Friends of NIDA Federal Grants Available for School Drug Tests Senate Subcommittee Approves $300 Million for Drug‐Free Schools SAMHSA Awards $60 Million for SA Services to Homeless Coming Up…     

Heterogeneous Effects of Child Development Accounts on Savings for Children’s Education

We examine effects of Child Development Accounts on savings for postsecondary education in a statewide experiment (N = 2,677), which automatically opened state-owned college savings accounts for treatment-group children, and encouraged their caregivers to open and save in participant-owned college savings accounts. The experiment achieves universal participation for children in the treatment group; almost all treatment-group children hold an account with more than $1,000 in college assets. Treatment participants we expect would hold their own participant-owned accounts without the intervention have $395 more in savings than their counterparts in the control group; those who are motivated by the intervention to hold a participant-owned account have mean deposits of $888. Those who are motivated by the intervention to save have mean deposits of $1,826. The intervention reduces the socioeconomic disparity in asset accumulation for children. The program has the potential to promote asset building for children’s education.     

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Parity as a Reality: A Civil Rights Victory, but Business Impact Unclear Search for Greater Efficiencies Leads Florida Provider to Merge with MH Agency How Will Insurance Companies Handle Parity? Cardinal Health to Pay $34 Million in Settlement Over Hydrocodone New Commission to Distribute $4 Million in OxyContin West Virginia Settlement OSI Announces Eight Recipients for Treatment Gap Grants Briefly Noted State Watch Coming up     

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Harkin: Sequestration Would Cut SAPT Block Grant by $131 Million Program Carves Uncommon Niche with Yearlong Adult Treatment Meth Labs Blur Distinction Between Criminal and Patient in Mo. Why Addiction Studies Should be Delivered in Academia Enforcement Reduces Consequences of College Drinking Ohio Gets $50,000 BRSS TACS Grant for State's Peer Support Services Briefly Noted Obituary Coming up     

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Health‐Care Reform: Addiction Field Starts Building a Coalition Center Offers Interest‐Free Financing; Others Cautious About Extending Credit OxyContin Settlement Funds to Benefit Virginia Providers NIDA‐NIAAA Merger to be Decided by NIH Panel RAND Study Finds Methamphetamine Cost U.S. $23 Billion in 2005 Ohio Governor Proposes Stimulus Funds to Pay for Treatment N.Y. Drug Sentencing Reform Urged with Focus on Treatment Briefly Noted State News Coming up     

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Adolescent Painkiller Use May Increase Risk of Addiction, Heroin Use Women's Component of NASADAD Offers Guidance Document for State Systems Parity Bill Attached to Tax Extender Bill Treatment Funds in Illinois Caught in Apparent Stalemate Substance Abuse: A 12‐Step Primer for Change No Drug Abuse, Underage Drinking or Smoking Allowed on YouTube Briefly Noted State Watch Names in News Call for Applications Coming up     

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CSAT Meeting Calls for Numbers on Methadone Deaths, Media Education Conn. Program Shows Modest Success in Housing, Supports for Homeless Oregon Addictions Treatment Grows by $14 Million Addiction Field: Welcome Patients with Serious Mental Illness NY Tobacco Ban to Take Effect July 24, 2008 Briefly Noted Resource Coming up     

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Patients in Methadone Treatment Losing Custody of Babies Mass. Center Sees New Patients by Being Embedded in Hospital Welfare Recipients in Florida Must Take Drug Tests Under New Law Voices of Recovery San Mateo County: Vision, Mission, Governance Post‐Release Treatment Cuts Risk of Return to Prison ADHD Linked to Subsequent Substance Abuse Briefly Noted In the States Coming up