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|   THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S
PREVENTION NEWS We aim to bring you the latest information on drug abuse prevention for students, parents and professionals. If you do not find this information useful or your name was entered on our list in error just follow the instructions at the bottom of the newsletter to be taken off this list. If you have a list or an organization feel free to forward this newsletter in
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check out our web site at
http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org and consider Quote of the Week: "Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal". ~ Pamela Vault Starr March 19 - 25 is the 14th annual National Inhalants &
Poisons Awareness Week (NIPAW).
http://www.inhalants.org
1. Start Talking Before They Start Drinking
http://family.samhsa.gov/media/familyguide/Underagebrochure_10_27_released_2.pdf
2. More People in Drug Abuse Treatment Began Drug Use Before Age 13 More people in treatment for drug abuse, other than alcohol abuse, began
using at least one of their problem drugs prior to the age of 13. The data over
the past decade show that in 1993, 12 percent of admissions to treatment for
drugs (114,462 people) began using their substances before age 13. By 2003, 14
percent of admissions (162,708 people) began using drugs prior to age 13. 3. Even Parents Who Smoke Can Warn Kids Against Habit Researchers found that smoking parents who were instructed on teaching their
children antismoking socialization skills could still effectively lower the odds
of their kids trying cigarettes by the 6th grade. Tactics included countering
pro-smoking messages, maintaining a smoke-free or low-smoke home, and
reinforcing the child's pledge to abstain from tobacco use. 4. JUST THE FACTS: According to the article, which follows an earlier study by Dartmouth Medical School that linked adolescent smoking to seeing smoking in movies, the review found that:
******************************* 5. Congress Exempts Itself From Indoor-Smoking Ban Washington, D.C.'s new ban on indoor smoking won't apply to the U.S.
Congress, which routinely exempts itself from such workplace regulations. 6. Mystery Of the Munchies Solved The mystery of the munchies, the craving for food experienced by cannabis
users, has been unravelled. Neuroscientists hope that by piecing together the
brain circuits involved in switching on the urge to eat they will be able to
identify ways to block the craving with new anti-obesity drugs 7. FREE: Drinking and Your Pregnancy Briefly conveys the lifelong medical and behavioral problems associated with fetal alcohol syndrome and advises women not to drink during pregnancy. English version: NIH Publication No. 01–4101; Spanish version: NIH Publication No. 01–4102. Can be ordered from the NIAAA Publications Distribution Center, P.O. Box
10686, Rockville, MD 20849–0686; phone: (301) 443–3860. They are also available
in full text on NIAAA’s Web site
http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose NIAAA and SAMSHA for bringing some of this information to us. For more information on drug abuse prevention be sure to go to our links page at http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org/Links.htm If your school or organization is interested in staging a Run Drugs Out of Town Run to help raise awareness of and money for drug abuse prevention visit our site at http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org or send us an email at events@rundrugsoutoutoftownrun.org and we will help you make it happen. If for any reason you want to be removed from this list simply send an email to us at unsubscribe@rundrugsoutoftownrun.org. If you are emailing from an address other than the one we have on file let us know and we will remove your address manually. To subscribe to this newsletter simply send an email to us at subscribe@rundrugsoutoftownrun.org. ©2006, Run Drugs Out of Town Run, Inc.
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