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10/09/06
Vol. 6 #41 We aim to bring you the latest information on drug abuse prevention
for students, parents and professionals. If you do not find this
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If you would like to help the kids in your
community check out our web site at
http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org and consider
staging a Run Drugs Out of Town Run.
Quote of the Week: "One of the first duties of the
physician is to educate the masses not to take medicine." ~ Sir Wiliam
Osler, MD (1849-1919)
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1. Youth Access and Underage Drinking
Resources
2. "Silence" Video Message
3. The Recipe for Raising Drug-Free Kids: Frequent Family Dinners
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Just Say ‘Know’ to Prescription Drugs Campaign
6. Information about Drugs and Alcohol (IDA)
7. FREE: Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke; Order
a Kit
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1. Youth Access and Underage Drinking
Resources
a partial list of resources you can use to increase your
understanding of underage drinking, alcohol policies, and community
action to move forward with the next step to reduce underage drinking in
your community.
http://www.faceproject.org/thisplace/YA_UD_resources.pdf
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2. "Silence" Video Message
This video message demonstrates in a simple but powerful way, the quick
and devastating effects inhalant abuse can have on kids and families.
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/drugfree/television/detp-0119.wvx
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3. The Recipe for Raising Drug-Free Kids: Frequent Family
Dinners
Whether you´re gathering around the table for macaroni and cheese or a
five-course meal, don´t underestimate the power behind the simple act of
taking time to eat dinner with your kids regularly. Research has shown
that the more often kids and teens eat dinner with their families, the
less likely they are to smoke, drink and use illegal drugs. That's the
reason The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at
Columbia University created Family Day—A Day to Eat Dinner with Your
Children.
http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1192
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4. JUST THE FACTS:
- During 2004, 16,694 people in the U.S. died in alcohol-related
motor vehicle crashes, representing 39% of all traffic-related
deaths (NHTSA 2005).
- In 2004, about 1.4 million drivers were arrested for driving
under the influence of alcohol or narcotics (Department of Justice,
2004). That’s less than one percent of the 159 million self-reported
episodes of alcohol–impaired driving among U.S. adults each year
(Quinlan et al. 2005).
- Drugs other than alcohol (e.g., marijuana and cocaine) are
involved in about 18% of motor vehicle driver deaths. These other
drugs are generally used in combination with alcohol (Jones et al.
2003).
- More than two-thirds of child passengers ages 14 and younger who
died in alcohol-related crashes during 1997–2002 were riding with
the drinking driver; only 32% of them were properly restrained at
the time of the crash (Shults 2004).
Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm
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5. Just Say ‘Know’ to Prescription Drugs Campaign
Today the Just Say “Know” to Prescription Drugs campaign, aimed at
getting one million people to stop and reevaluate the medications they
are taking, reported that interest in the initiative is coming from a
wide array of countries around the globe.
http://www.prweb.com//releases/2006/10/prweb445428.htm
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6. Information about Drugs and Alcohol (IDA)
The Information about Drugs and Alcohol (IDA) collection provides
access to over 100,000, bibliographic abstracts and full text articles
and reports which focus on drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, as well as
mental health, social marketing and health communication issues.
http://ida.nacoa.org
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7. FREE: Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke;
Order a Kit
KIISS provides materials containing information on smoke-free homes and
cars, and restaurants. Make up your own kit! You may request smoke-free
restaurant and home and car brochures and decals, smoke-free restaurant
videos, and smoke-free restaurant implementation manuals.
http://www.kiiss.org/order/order.php
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), Daily
Dose, CADCA 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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