THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S
PREVENTION NEWS
04/24/06 Vol. 6 #17
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Quote of the Week: "If you can’t be a good example, then
you’ll just have to be a horrible warning." ~ Catherine Aird
April is Alcohol Awareness
Month
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1.
What Kids Can Do
2. Economic Costs of
Underage Drinking
3. The Elephant on Main
Street
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Adolescent Drug
Involvement Scale (ADIS)
6. 15% Work Under
Influence of Alcohol
7. FREE: Alcohol: What You Don’t Know Can Harm You
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1. What Kids
Can Do
What Kids Can
Do, Inc. (WKCD) is a national not-for-profit organization founded in
2001 for the purpose of making public the voices and views of
adolescents.
On its website, WKCD
documents young people's lives, learning, and work, and their
partnerships with adults both in and out of school.
http://www.whatkidscando.org/index.asp
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2. Economic Costs of
Underage Drinking
The costs to the United
States of underage drinking is substantial. The National Academy of
Sciences (NAS), Institute of Medicine released a landmark report to
Congress in September 2003, "Reducing Underage Drinking: A Collective
Responsibility", found that underage alcohol use costs the nation an
estimated $53 billion annually, including:
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Violent Crime:
$29,368,000,000
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Traffic Crashes:
$19,452,000,000
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Burns: $189,000,000
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Drowning: $426,000,000
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Suicide Attempts:
$1,512,000,000
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome:
$493,000,000
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Alcohol Poisonings:
$340,000,000
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Treatment: $1,008,000,000
TOTAL: $52,788,000,000
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3. The Elephant on Main Street
Based on the “Dateline NBC” show “Saving
Carrick,” this website/blog follows the true story of a family’s
struggles to save their teen-age daughter from addiction.
http://www.elephantonmain.com
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4. JUST THE FACTS:
How Much Do Cessation Benefits Cost? Are They Cost-Effective?
- Tobacco cessation is more cost-effective than other common and
covered disease prevention interventions, such as the treatment of
hypertension and high blood cholesterol.
- Cost analyses have shown tobacco cessation benefits to be either
cost-saving or cost-neutral.
- Overall, cost/expenditure to
employers equalizes at 3 years; benefits exceed costs by 5 years.
- It costs between 10 and 40 cents per member per month to provide
a comprehensive tobacco cessation benefit (costs vary based on
utilization and dependent coverage).
- In contrast, the annual cost of tobacco use is about $3,400 per
smoker or about $7.18 for each pack of cigarettes sold.
- Neonatal health care costs related to smoking are equivalent to
$704 for each maternal smoker.
- Randomized controlled trials indicate that a smoking cessation
program for pregnant women can save as much as $6 for each $1 spent.
Source: http://www.preventiondss.org/
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5. Adolescent Drug Involvement Scale (ADIS)
ADAD was designed to assess substance use and other life problems, to
assist with treatment planning, and to assess changes in life problem
areas and severity over time.
http://www.pophealth.wisc.edu/chppe/ADIS/documents/aadis-srvy.doc
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6. 15% Work Under
Influence of Alcohol
http://www.buffalo.edu/news/fast-execute.cgi/article-page.html?article=77010009
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7. FREE: Alcohol: What You Don’t Know Can Harm You
Provides information on drinking and driving, alcohol-medication
interactions, interpersonal problems, alcohol-related birth defects,
long-term health problems, and current research issues. English version:
NIH Publication No. 02–4323; Spanish version: NIH Publication No.
02–4323–S.
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 (www.niaaa.nih.gov).
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily
Dose, NIAAA, What Kids
Can Do 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
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