NIDA calls for funding for youth prevention intervention services

Abstract

Nora D. Volkow, M.D., director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), for years has decried the continuing overdose death rate. In the May issue of JAMA Pediatrics, Volkow, along with Carlos Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., head of NIDA's Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research, wrote about the need to improve delivery of prevention services.