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Washington — As research findings coalesce around a collection of risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, it is becoming obvious that poor and minority populations — the ones most likely to harbor risk factors such as hypertension and diabetes –also are more likely than whites to encounter this brain disorder.

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By Bob Curley

A House-Senate conference committee has approved a FY2008 budget plan that calls for spending $1.779 billion on the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant and increasing the budgets of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA).

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