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1.  Passive Smoking May Harm Infants From Birth 
2.  One Quarter of Underage Drinkers Dependent or Abusing

3.  Kieth's Law
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) for Alcohol Screening
6.  Economic Benefits of Treating Substance Abuse  Outweigh Costs

7.  FREE:  Kids Count Data Book
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1.  Passive Smoking May Harm Infants From Birth

Significant levels of nicotine and carcinogenic compounds have been found in babies as young as three months, raising fears that some children are being harmed by passive cigarette smoking from birth.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1773199,00.html

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2.  One Quarter of Underage Drinkers Dependent or Abusing

The peer-reviewed APAM article and CASA report reveal that 25.9 percent of underage drinkers meet clinical criteria for alcohol abuse and addiction -- more than two and one-half times the 9.6 percent of adult drinkers who meet the criteria for such pathological drinking.  http://66.135.34.236/absolutenm/templates/PressReleases.asp?articleid=437&zoneid=56
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3.  Kieth's Law

It could happen to you too.  See what one mother did.

http://www.drugfree.org/Parent/Memorials/Keiths_Law
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:
 

• 40% of those who start drinking before the age of 15 meet criteria for alcohol dependence at some point in their lives.

• Research indicates that the human brain continues to develop into a person's early 20's and that exposure of the developing brain to alcohol may have long-lasting effects on intellectual capabilities and may increase the likelihood of alcohol addiction (Brown, Tapert, Granholm and Delis, 2000).

• Underage alcohol consumption results in serious second-hand effects.
  Almost half of the approximately 2200 person who die annually in traffic crashes involving drinking drivers under age 21 are person other than the drinking driver (Hingson & Winter, 2003).

• Among college students under age 21 alone, 50,000 experience alcohol-related date rape, and 430,000 are assaulted by another student who has been drinking (NIAAA, 2002).

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5.  Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) for Alcohol Screening

The cost of identifying a patient with unhealthy alcohol use was lowest for the AUDIT ($12.48, versus four other screening methods ranging from $72.59 to $291.89).

http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/screening-for-unhealthy.html
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6.  Economic Benefits of Treating Substance Abuse  Outweigh Costs 

Research partially funded by RWJF suggests that every dollar invested in substance abuse treatment yields $7 worth of economic benefits.

http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/featureDetail.jsp?featureID=1308&type=3
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7.  FREE:  Kids Count Data Book

The 2005 Online Data Book contains state-level data for over 75 measures of child wellbeing, and allows users to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles. The Casey Foundation also advocates in the report for a call-to-action to address the needs of America's most persistently unemployed families.
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/sld/databook.jsp
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose, KidsCount and Margaret Wagner for bringing some of this information to us.

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