THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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1.  Parental Smoking Still a Threat to Kids' Lungs
2.  New Study Shows a 'Tidal Wave' of Underage Drinking Costs

3.  Anti-drug Overdose?
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  People in Recovery Make Good Employees
6.  Help Raise Awareness About Recovery

7.  FREE:  ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT CHART
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1.  Parental Smoking Still a Threat to Kids' Lungs

a new international study of over 20,000 children from 8 countries confirms that exposure to cigarette smoke before and after birth impairs their lung function. The researchers found that 60% of the children in the study had been exposed to smoking before birth or early in life. Children whose mothers smoked during pregnancy were significantly more at risk for poor lung function. The effects of maternal smoking during pregnancy last up to age 12, and exposure to second-hand smoke early in life harms lung function further. The results of this study indicate that parental smoking remains a serious public health issue.
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=12585712&src=eDialog/GetContent

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2.  New Study Shows a 'Tidal Wave' of Underage Drinking Costs

A newly published study shows that underage drinking costs America nearly $62 billion a year. At thousands of youth parties across the country, the overwhelmingly favored intoxicant will be alcohol. And yet, public attention remains focused on preventing youth drug use, not alcohol use.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/pressreleases/2006/new-study-shows-a-tidal.html
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3.  MADD Curriculum Helps Elementary Students Avoid Alcohol

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and the Hazelden Foundation are collaborating to bring the evidence-based alcohol prevention curriculum, Protecting You/Protecting Me, to elementary students.

The curriculum teaches pupils in grades 1-5 about the impact of alcohol on the developing brain and how to protect themselves if riding in a car with an alcohol-impaired driver. Its series of 40 lessons covers ways to handle unsafe situations, make good decisions, resist peer pressure, and talk to parents and other adults, among other topics.
http://www.madd.org/news/10940
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:
alcopops facts

• Approximately one-third of teen girls have tried alcopops
• Teen girls drink alcopops more than boys (one-third versus one-fifth)
• More than one in six teen girls drink alcopops every six months or more often
• Teen girls drink all types of alcohol (alcopops, wine, hard drinks, etc.) more than boys
• One out of five teen girls who have tried alcopops have thrown up or passed out from drinking
• One out of four teen girls who have tried alcopops have driven after drinking or ridden in a car with a driver who had been drinking
• One in six teen girls who tried alcopops have been sexually active after drinking

5.  People in Recovery Make Good Employees

The owner of a Los Angeles cafe says that he makes a point of hiring people in addiction recovery because they make good employees.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/people-in-recovery-make-good.html
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6.  Help Raise Awareness About Recovery

As many as 74 percent of Americans say that addiction has had some impact on them at some point in their lives, whether it was their own personal addiction, that of a friend or family member, or any other experience with addiction. Yet many people in treatment and recovery face stigma and discrimination, which can be a barrier to receiving treatment. Community coalitions can help erase this stigma by celebrating Recovery Month this September.
http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1157
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7.  FREE:  ALCOHOL IMPAIRMENT CHART

http://www.ou.edu/oupd/bac-chart-11-20-2003.pdf
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose, American Lung Association 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 happen.

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