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...goals while racking up 13 saves. “I’ll tell you what—Kylie Stephens is competing for that spot as well because she did a heck of a job for us,” Stone said. —Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Rebecca A. Compton can be reached at compton@fas.harvard.edu...
...bottom line is, we learn about drug use by asking people about their behaviors," says Dr. Wilson Compton, director of the Division of Epidemiology Services and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "But because it's survey research, there are multiple ways it can be improved...
...arrests and drug seizures in a particular area. Another research tool, known as the Drug Abuse Warning Network, or DAWN, tracks the number of emergency-room visits and drug overdoses throughout the country. Using figures like these, officials determine where and how funding will be allocated throughout the country, Compton says. But these numbers fail to account for those drug dealers and users who have managed to avoid doctors and police...
...prescription painkillers, which now ranks second - behind marijuana use - as the nation's most prevalent illegal drug problem, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy. But in tracking drugs like OxyContin, also known as "hillbilly heroin," officials must first distinguish drug abuse from mere "medical misuse," Compton says. Officials actually had to modify the NSDUH survey after realizing that some methamphetamine users failed to report using the drug because they were taking it with a prescription...