NIDA NOTES
Volume 14, Number 2
Printed August, 1999

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• Heroin Information Summary Page

• Cocaine Information Summary Page

RESEARCH FINDINGS

• Heroin Snorters Risk Transition to Injection Drug Use and Infectious Disease

• Cocaine's Pleasurable Effects May Involve Multiple Chemical Sites in the Brain

• Blood-borne Medications Could Intercept Drugs Before They Reach the Brain

• Drug Abuse Research Helps Curtail the Spread of Deadly Infectious Diseases

NEWS

• NIDA Advisory Council Comings and Goings

25 YEARS OF PROGRESS

• Tracking Trends in Drug Abuse

• NIDA-funded Scientist Receives Presidential Early Career Award

• New Tracers Will Help Researchers Track Nicotine in the Brain

• New York City's Declining HIV Epidemic

• Infectious Diseases and Drug Abuse