Can the arts keep children off drugs? A local partnership that includes academics, medicine, a community organization and the arts has received a $1 million federal grant to study whether involvement in the arts can help children avoid drugs and risky sexual behavior.
How rock'n'roll fell out of love with drugs: Young musicians today are more likely than those of previous generations to decry the harm that drugs can cause, according to research in America.
The study, based on an analysis of drug lyrics in English-language popular music since the 1960s, was last week highlighted as one of the few pieces of good news in the annual survey by the European monitoring centre for drugs and drug addiction, the EU's drugs agency.
