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Quote of the Week:  "Declaring a war on drugs to deal with an epidemic of drug addiction is about as effective as declaring a war on sugar to combat an epidemic of diabetes." ~ Terence T. Gorski
 

April is Alcohol Awareness Month

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1.  Underage Drinking 2005: Girls Bingeing More
2.  Prom Safety Awareness

3.  Addiction and the Family: Healing and Recovery
Webcast
4.  JUST THE FACTS

5.  Equivalent Of 2-4 Drinks Daily Encourages Cancer Tumors In Mice
6.  Collaborative Launches Online Search for Workplace Alcohol Screening

7.  FREE:  Demand Reduction: A Glossary of Terms
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1.  Underage Drinking 2005: Girls Bingeing More

According to all three federal surveys, girls are binge drinking more, while boys are bingeing less or increasing their bingeing at a slower rate than their female peers.
Twelfth-grade female drinkers and binge drinkers are now more likely to drink distilled spirits than beer.
Long-term studies now show a direct link between alcohol advertising and youth drinking. Young people who see and hear more alcohol ads are more likely to drink (and in many cases drink more heavily) then their peers.
Every day, 5,400 young people under 16 take their first drink of alcohol.
http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/newsreleasesdetail.jsp?id=10401

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2.  Prom Safety Awareness

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3.  Addiction and the Family: Healing and Recovery
Webcast

The show will examine intergenerational vulnerability and the risks involved for alcohol and other substance use disorders by the sons and daughters of addiction-prone homes [CSAT, USA]
http://www.recoverymonth.gov/2006/multimedia/w.aspx?ID=472
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:
The experiences in states from around the country who have invested in comprehensive prevention programs establish the following key points:

• When adequately funded, comprehensive state tobacco prevention programs quickly and substantially reduce tobacco use, save lives, and cut smoking-caused costs.
• State tobacco prevention programs must be insulated against the inevitable attempts by the tobacco industry to reduce program funding and otherwise interfere with the programs' successful operation.
• The programs' funding must be sustained over time both to protect initial tobacco use reductions and to achieve further cuts.
• When program funding is cut, progress in reducing tobacco use erodes, and the state suffers from higher levels of smoking and more smoking-caused deaths, disease, and costs.

5.  Equivalent Of 2-4 Drinks Daily Encourages Cancer Tumors In Mice

University of Mississippi researchers say they have created the first-ever mammalian model of how alcohol consumption spurs tumor growth, showing that even moderate drinking resulted in larger and more robust tumors.  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=40978
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7.  FREE:  Demand Reduction: A Glossary of Terms
 

This Glossary is intended to provide brief definitions of not only the most relevant scientific terms in the field of drug demand reduction, including key terms employed in international treaties concerned with illicit drugs, but also of main substances of abuse, including alcohol and nicotine.
http://www.drugworld.co.uk/documents/terminology.pdf
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and SAMSHA for bringing some of this information to us.

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