THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:   "Legalizing drugs would simultaneously reduce the amount of crime and raise the quality of law enforcement. Can you conceive of any other measure that would accomplish so much to promote law and order?" ~ Milton Friedman
 
 

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1.  Just One Cigarette In Childhood Can Lead to Later Addiction

2.  Teen Lifetime Drinking, Smoking Rates Down  
3.  What are Inhalants?
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  China to Ban Smoking for Duration of Olympics
6.  Water Pipes, Smokeless Tobacco Harmful, WHO Warns

7.  FREE:  Hope, Help & Healing
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1.  Just One Cigarette In Childhood Can Lead to Later Addiction

Children who smoke even a single cigarette at an early age are twice as likely to take up the habit later in life, even if they spend several subsequent years not smoking, a study has found.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/smoking/Story/0,,1782402,00.html

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2.  Teen Lifetime Drinking, Smoking Rates Down

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds that today's teens are less likely to say that they have ever taken an alcoholic drink, smoked a cigarette, or have had sex in their lifetime

http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/teen-lifetime-drinking.html
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3.  What are Inhalants?

Inhalants are ordinary household products that are inhaled or sniffed by children to get high. There are hundreds of household products on the market today that can be misused as inhalants.

http://www.drugfree.org/Intervention/Drug_Guide/Inhalants
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• The three leading causes of death among adolescents--unintentional injuries, homicide, and suicide, as well as unsafe sexual behavior--are closely yoked to alcohol use.
• Of adolescents' emergency room visits, as many as 40% had a positive blood alcohol level.
• A national survey found that 40% of parents think they have little influence over their adolescent's decision to use drugs or not.
• Approximately 45% of parents indicate that it is likely their teens will use illegal drugs.
• By the age of 17, approximately 12% of adolescents can be categorized as at risk for substance abuse.
• There is a genetic component associated with the presence of alcohol or drug dependence. In the same way that diabetes, or hypertension, or breast cancer can run in families, the same is true of alcohol and drug dependence.

5.  China to Ban Smoking for Duration of Olympics

It is going to come as a shock to tens of millions of lungs, but the Chinese government is planning a tobacco-free Olympics when the world's heaviest smoking nation hosts the event in 2008.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1785575,00.html
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6.  Water Pipes, Smokeless Tobacco Harmful, WHO Warns

The World Health Organization (WHO) issued a warning about the rising popularity of water pipes and smokeless tobacco products among young people worldwide, many of whom are unaware of their harmful effects. On the eve of World No Tobacco Day, the WHO said those smoking flavored tobacco through water pipes inhale dangerous amounts of carbon monoxide, nicotine and tar. Water pipes often lack standardized health warnings used for cigarettes, which "may reinforce the assumption of relative safety", according to a WHO report. The report also said that a growing body of evidence confirms smoking through a water pipe causes lung disease, cardiovascular disease and cancer. http://www.reutershealth.com/archive/2006/05/30/eline/links/20060530elin031.html
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7.  FREE:  Hope, Help & Healing

A guide to helping someone who might have a drug or alcohol problem

Available in English and Spanish

http://www.drugfree.org/Files/HHH_English_Brochure

http://www.drugfree.org/Files/HHH_Spanish_Brochure
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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.

For more information on drug abuse prevention be sure to go to our links page at http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org/Links.htm

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