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2008
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01/07/08
Vol. 8 #1
Quote of the Week: "There is
nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome." ~ Ella Wheeler
Wilcox
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1.
An Introduction to Medication for Alcohol Dependence
2. Areas of the Brain That Can Be Damaged In Utero By Maternal Alcohol Consumption
3. 120000 Lives a Year
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Bars: Going Smoke Free! Healthy Environment: Healthy Business!
6. Many Full-Time Employees Use Drugs
7. FREE: Areas of the brain that can be damaged in utero by maternal alcohol consumption
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01/14/08
Vol. 8 # 2
Quote of the Week: "It is our
responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." ~ Peter
Ustinov
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1.
New York City Sets Standard for the Nation in Reducing High School
Smoking
2. Talking To Your Kids About Alcohol
3. DrugScreening.org
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Map of Smoke-Free States
6. Study Finds That Heart Attacks In Non-smokers Decreased With
Smoking Ban
7. FREE: Bringing the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse
and Addiction
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01/21/08
Vol. 8 #3
Quote of the Week: "All that is
necessary for the forces of evil to take root in the world is for enough
good men to do nothing." -- Edmund Burke
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1.
Pass FDA Tobacco Legislation in 2008
2. Teens Who Drink to Deal with Anger Called High-Risk
3. Minnesota College Ousts Alcohol Ads
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. New Alcohol Tax Could Ease California’s Budget Deficit by 20
Percent
6. You Get What You Pay For California's Alcohol Lobby
7. FREE: The Neurobiology of Ecstasy (MDMA)
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01/24/08
Vol. 8 # 4
Quote of the Week: "Don't accept
that others know you better than yourself. Work joyfully and peacefully,
knowing that right thoughts and right efforts will inevitably bring
about right results." ~ James Allen
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1.
Alcohol 101 PlusTM
2. ONDCP Launches Initiative to Raise Public Awareness of
Prescription Drug Abuse
3. PathwayInterventions.com
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Brief Intervention in ER Called Effective
6. Prevention Education in America's Schools
7. FREE: Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction: What
Science Says
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02/04/08
Vol. 8 # 5
Quote of the Week: "Two wrongs
don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." ~ Thomas Szasz
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1.
New Research Sheds Light on Nicotine Addiction.
2. Study Finds That Heart Attacks In Non-smokers Decreased With
Smoking Ban
3. 99% of Americans Wouldn't Use Hard Drugs If Legal
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. The War on Drugs by the Numbers
6. Screening for Alcohol Problems a Cost Effective Strategy
7. FREE: The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
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02/11/08
Vol. 8 # 6
Quote of the Week:
"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for
the things we did not do that is inconsolable." ~ Sidney J. Harris
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1.
Are You Part of the Smokefree 2010 Challenge?
2. CADCA TV Show Discusses Raising Drug-Free Kids
3. Nearly One in Ten First-Year College Students at One University
Have a Cannabis Use Disorder
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Fund Rehab, Not Prisons, Taxpayers Say
6. Alcohol Calorie Calculator
7. FREE: CDC's Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco
Control Programs—2007
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02/18/08
Vol. 8 # 7
Quote of the Week: "It is
error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." ~ Thomas Paine
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1.
New Research Sheds Light on Nicotine Addiction
2. Top 10 Legal Drug Addictions
3. How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Children Prenatally Exposed To Alcohol May Be Identified By Eye
Blinks
6. Why Don't We Talk About Smoking and Celebrity Deaths?
7. FREE: Smoke-Free Implementation Handbook
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02/25/08
Vol. 8 # 8
Quote of the Week:
"Every human being has a work to carry on within,
duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his,
and which no conscience but his own can teach." ~ William
Ellery Channing
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1.
Open Letter to Parents on Prescription Drug Abuse
2. Top 10 Non-Drug Based Addictions
3. Clemson Students Charged in Fraternity Alcohol Overdose
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Study Endorses State Stop-Smoking Campaigns
6. One Billion Tobacco Deaths Possible This Century Unless Urgent
Action is Taken
7. FREE: Tips For Cutting Down on Drinking
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03/03/08
Vol. 8 # 9
Quote of the Week: “It is easy to
dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of
dodging our responsibilities.” ~ Josiah Charles Stamp
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1.
What can you do? Tips for Preventing Rx Abuse
2. Top 10 Illegal Drug Addictions
3. Prescription Drugs Television Ad
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Inhalant Prevention Resource Guide
6. Inhalant Brochure for Parents
7. FREE: Inhalant Abuse: Nursing Implications
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03/10/08
Vol. 8 # 10
Quote of the Week: "You are not
responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as
an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it." ~ Ken
Keyes, Jr.
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1.
How to Hold Crucial Conversations About Drugs With Your Teenager
2. Teens In Treatment for Prescription Drug Abuse
3. State Inhalant Laws
4. JUST THE FACTS: Underage Alcohol Use
5. Damage Inhalants Can Do to the Body & Brain
Study Finds Distinctly Different Drinking Motivations Among U.S. 12th
Graders
7. FREE: Secondhand Smoke Poster
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03/17/08
Vol. 8 # 11
Quote of the Week:
"There are no hopeless situations; There
are only men who have grown hopeless about them." ~
Clare Boothe Luce
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1.
15% of U.S. 12th Graders Have Used Prescription Drugs Nonmedically in
the Past Year
2. Prescription Drug Abuse Brochure
3. FAQs About Prescription Drug Abuse
4. JUST THE FACTS:
Underage Alcohol Use and Impaired Driving
5.
Restaurants: Going Smoke Free! Healthy Environment: Healthy Business!
6. New Online Course for Clergy on Preventing Alcohol and Drug
Problems
7. FREE: Safety First
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03/24/08
Vol. 8 # 12
Quote of the Week: "If you want
children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on
their shoulders." ~ Abigail Van Buren
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1.
Researcher Warns of Early Addiction to Cigarettes
2. Youth Who are Heavy Drinkers Are at Risk for Heart Problems
3. Time to Talk
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Italian Smoking Ban Followed by Drop in Heart Attacks
6. New Website for Arizonans Concerned About Smoking (ACAS)
7. FREE: Exposed
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03/31/08
Vol. 8 # 13
Quote of the Week: "You have powers
you never dreamed of. You can do things you never thought you could do.
There are no limitations in what you can do except the limitations in
your own mind." ~ Albert Einstein
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1.
Tiny Hearts Hurt by Secondhand Smoke
2. Early Exposure to Movie Smoking Predicts Later Tobacco Use
3. Learning How to Say No to Alcohol Advertising and Peer Pressure
Works for Inner-City Adolescents
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Stop Drinking and Smoking to Help Increase Lifespan
6. New Community “Strategizer” on Prescription Drugs
7. FREE: Workplace Helpline
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04/07/08
Vol. 8 # 14
Quote of the Week: "When a person
can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
~ Thomas Szasz
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1.
Past Year Alcohol Use
2. Underage Drinking: Myths vs. Facts
3. Higher Alcohol Taxes to Combat U.K. Drinking Problems
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Employers Must Prove Need Before Testing Workers for Drugs,
Federal Court Rules
6. Research Reveals Little Benefit from Stop-Smoking Drugs
7. FREE: Substance Abuse Treatment for Persons With
Co-Occurring Disorders
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04/14/08
Vol. 8 # 15
Quote of the Week: "Great bodies
of people are never responsible for what they do." ~ Virginia Woolf
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1.
Alcohol and Other Drug Use Prevention Fact Sheet
2. Teen Drivers Fact Sheet
3. Alcohol Use Masters
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. 'Lung Age' Shocks Smokers Into Stopping
6. Understanding Alcohol: Investigations into Biology and Behavior
7. FREE:
Practical Guides for Alcohol Policy and Prevention Approaches
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04/21/08
Vol. 8 # 16
Quote of the Week: "No snowflake
in an avalanche ever feels responsible." ~ Voltaire
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1.
School Nurses Helping Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse
2. FAQs on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
3. Alcohol: What You Don't Know Can Harm You
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. National Multi-Housing Council Memorandum On No-smoking
Policies In Apartments
6. Prevention Works!
7. FREE: How To Prevent Alcohol Related Problems
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04/28/08
Vol. 8 # 17
Quote of the Week: "We have not
passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move
from the passive voice to the active voice -- that is, until we stop
saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it." ~ Sydney J. Harris
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1.
Many Students Binge to Celebrate Turning 21
2. Facts About Alcohol Poisoning
3. A Snapshot of Annual High-Risk College Drinking Consequences
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. AUDIT
6. Reimbursement Codes Change the Landscape of Substance Use
Screening
7. FREE: SELF-HELP STRATEGIES FOR CUTTING
DOWN OR STOPPING SUBSTANCE USE
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