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Byline: The Register-Guard

Researchers get funds to study children's use of intoxicants

Oregon Oregon, city, United States
Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products.
 Research Institute, a Eugene-based nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive.

Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law.
 research center, has received two large National Institutes of Health grants to study children's use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs.

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 Andrews, a senior scientist at ORI, received a five-year, $2.6 million grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study children's knowledge of and intent to use tobacco, alcohol, marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates.  and inhalants inhalants,
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. The grant continues research begun with Springfield grade-schoolers. Researchers plan to track the same children from sixth grade to one year after high school. The work will help design substance-abuse prevention programs.

ORI also received a $4 million, five-year grant from the National Cancer Institute to study tobacco use among Oregon high school students. ORI senior scientist Anthony Biglan and his colleagues will study the effects of state tobacco control practices and other factors on tobacco use among high school and middle school students in Oregon.
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Title Annotation:General News; METRO
Publication:The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Date:May 13, 2004
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