THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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staging a Run Drugs Out of Town Run.
 
 
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Quote of the Week:   "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
 
 

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1.  Children's Behavior As Early As Age 3 Can Predict Adolescent Alcohol And Drug Use

2.  Cheating Your Health
3.  Parent First, Friend Later
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Alcohol Policy Information System
6.  More Websites Offer Unfettered Prescription Drug Sales
7.  FREE:  Poster
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1.  Children's Behavior As Early As Age 3 Can Predict Adolescent Alcohol And Drug Use

The study, from researchers at Idaho and Michigan State Universities, and the University of Michigan, tracked 514 children of alcoholics and matched control families over the past decade
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=47304&nfid=al

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2.  Cheating Your Health

There is no question that steroids work to increase lean muscle mass. But at what cost? What potential problems await those who take anabolic steroids?

http://www.usantidoping.org/athletes/cheating_health.html
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3.  Parent First, Friend Later

Now more than ever, children need firm, sometimes tough, direction from the adults who care about them. Children do not need parents to be their friends, allowing them to do whatever they want with no consequences. Most of us know parents who want to be their children’s
best friends.
http://captus.samhsa.gov/central/documents/Parentfirst-Friendlater.pdf
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Beer is the # 1 drug of choice for underage drinkers and drunk drivers.
• Strong evidence shows that increasing beer taxes reduces teen deaths from alcohol. Areas with the highest beer taxes have the lowest teen car accident rates.
• Beer taxes are at historically low levels, but the beer industry wants them even lower, despite budget deficits and funding cuts for social programs.
• Polls indicate that 70% of Americans -- even drinkers -- support higher beer taxes.
• The beer industry says it's "responsible," but it keeps marketing beer to kids with ads that glamorize drinking, on TV shows popular with kids. Beer ads outnumber "responsibility" ads by 32:1.
• The real way to curb underage drinking is to adopt research-based strategies like raising beer taxes and limiting alcohol marketing, recommended by the Institute of Medicine.(www.jointogether.org/IOM).

5.  Alcohol Policy Information System

The Alcohol Policy Information System (APIS) is an online resource that provides detailed information on a wide variety of alcohol-related policies in the United States at both State and Federal levels. It features compilations and analyses of alcohol-related statutes and regulations. Designed primarily as a tool for researchers, APIS simplifies the process of ascertaining the state of the law for studies on the effects and effectiveness of alcohol-related policies.
http://www.alcoholpolicy.niaaa.nih.gov/
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6.  More Websites Offer Unfettered Prescription Drug Sales

A recent snapshot report found 185 websites selling prescription drugs, the highest number in the three-year history of the research project, and noted that 89 percent of the sites did not require a prescription to purchase controlled substances.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2006/more-websites-offer.html
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7.  FREE:  Poster

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/july4planner-03/LawEnforcementPoster.pdf
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily Dose, NHYSA  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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