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Quote of the Week:  "There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: One is roots. The other is wings." ~ Hodding Carter Jr.
 
 

The Art of Recovery Expo is coming to Phoenix on Sept 16th  http://www.artofrecoveryexpo.com/

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1.  Quit Cards   

2.  Alcohol Industry Profits From Underage Drinking

3.  Ultrasounds Show Mothers' Drinking Shrinks Fetal Brain
4.  JUST THE FACTS

5.  The Role of Substance Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence

6.  No Outsized Behavioral Problems Among Cocaine Kids

7.  FREE:  Bringing the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse and Addiction
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1.  Quit Cards

Want to send one of these free Quit-Cards to someone you care about?
Just choose a card, complete all requested information, and send!  http://teenquit.com/quitcard/index.asp

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2.  Alcohol Industry Profits From Underage Drinking

Underage drinking is worth nearly $23 billion a year to the alcohol industry, or 17.5 percent of all money spent on spirits in the US annually, researchers from New York's Columbia University report.  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_32947.html
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3.  Ultrasounds Show Mothers' Drinking Shrinks Fetal Brain

Routine ultrasounds show that heavy drinkers who continue to imbibe after learning they are pregnant may carry fetuses with reduced skull and brain growth compared to those of abstainers or quitters, says a new study
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=42335&nfid=mnf
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

Among primary alcohol admissions aged 21 or older,

• admissions for alcohol only were more likely to be White than admissions for alcohol and a secondary drug (70 vs. 58 percent)
• Admissions aged 21 or older for alcohol plus a secondary drug were almost twice as likely to enter residential/rehabilitative services as admissions for alcohol only (20 vs. 11 percent)
• As a proportion of all admissions aged 21 or older, admissions for alcohol only and admissions for alcohol plus a secondary drug decreased from 1993 to 2003

5.  The Role of Substance Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence

Much of the violence reported in the literature involves intimate partner violence (IPV) committed by men toward women, a pervasive problem in a significant proportion of U.S. families. Roughly 1,800 instances of homicide and manslaughter between intimate partners occurred in 1998, with more than 1,300 of these involving women as victims.

Intimate partner violence is a major public health concern. Substance use has been found to co-occur in 40% to 60% of IPV incidents across various studies.

http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177101044
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6.  No Outsized Behavioral Problems Among Cocaine Kids

'Crack babies' were to the 1980s what 'meth babies' are to the new millennium, but follow-up research has consistently shown that children exposed to cocaine before birth have no more behavioral problems than others their age.  http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/no-outsized-behavioral.html
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7.  FREE:  Bringing the Power of Science to Bear on Drug Abuse and Addiction

Slide Teaching Packet V, For Health Practitioners, Teachers, and Neuroscientists
http://www.nida.nih.gov/pubs/teaching/Teaching5/Teaching.html
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose  and SAMSHA for bringing some of this information to us.

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