THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  “As Attorney General, I witnessed firsthand the tactics of the tobacco industry.  Arizonans need to understand that Proposition 206 is funded by R.J. Reynolds and is an attempt to protect its tobacco profits.” ~ Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano

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1.  Every Cigarette Is Doing You Damage
2.  Marlboro's Celebrate 50 Years
3.  Pediatricians Not Doing Enough To Stop Parental Smoking
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  A Peace Plan for the Drug War

6.  Medication Use at Home Sends 700,000 to ER Annually
7.  FREE:  Better Safe Than Sorry-Preventing a Tragedy: A Science and Health Curriculum
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1.  Every Cigarette Is Doing You Damage

Check out the video and print ads from the New York State Smokers Quitline.

http://doingyoudamage.com/campaignresources.htm

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2.  Marlboro's Celebrate 50 Years

. . . of death.

http://www.50yearsofdeath.com/
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3.  Pediatricians Not Doing Enough To Stop Parental Smoking

Parental smoking is a pediatrician's business, experts say, yet many are reluctant to tell parents to stop smoking and offer little support for efforts to quit, a new study suggests.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=51038&nfid=al
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Women become more intoxicated than men on the same amount of alcohol, even when they weigh the same. This is because women have less muscle tissue which contains the body fluid that dilutes alcohol and because women's bodies more quickly process alcohol through the stomach and into the bloodstream.
• Research has shown that women lack a stomach enzyme, alcohol dehydrogenase, which usually acts as a protective barrier and acts to break down the alcohol before it is absorbed. Without this enzyme, alcohol enters women's bloodstreams in a higher concentration. Alcoholic women have virtually none of this enzyme.
• Women are less able to predict the effects of consuming a given amount of alcohol. Day-to-day variability in response to alcohol occurs due to the effects of the menstrual cycle. Greater susceptibility to alcohol's influence occurs just before menstruation.
• The less a woman weighs, the longer it takes her body to be clear of alcohol.  The presence of birth control pills has also been shown to slow metabolism of alcohol.

Source: http://www.uww.edu/sart//alcoholfacts.htm

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5.  A Peace Plan for the Drug War

No matter which way you look at it, the current
U.S. War on Drugs is not working. Instead, it is
creating disturbing and expensive consequences
for our society, especially for children. Globally, more kids are trying drugs, and these drugs are purer and easier to get than they were when the term “War on Drugs” was coined over 25 years ago. Government statistics show that drug imports and exports, sales, and use have risen steadily every year. Today the U.S. generates the greatest demand for drugs and has the largest number of prisoners in the world, a quarter of which are nonviolent drug offenders.
http://www.nicd.us/A Peace Plan 75 DPI.pdf
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6.  Medication Use at Home Sends 700,000 to ER Annually

According to a study published in the October 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, as many as 700,000 Americans end up in emergency rooms each year as a result of adverse reactions (side effects) to drugs they've taken.

Whether we like it or not, medication use in America is common, and many "self medicate." According to information in the AMA article, a 2004 study found that more than 80% of US residents reported using a prescription medication, over-the-counter (OTC) drug or dietary supplement in the previous week. The same article found 30% saying they had used five or more drugs in the previous week.
http://www.planetc1.com/cgi-bin/n/v.cgi?c=1&id=1161127216
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7.  FREE:  Better Safe Than Sorry-Preventing a Tragedy: A Science and Health Curriculum

This highly engaging, flexible (1-4 class periods), inquiry-based curriculum module was developed by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill as well as teachers and other educational consultants. Materials and lessons are adapted for use in a middle school science classroom, aligned with the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and are based on current research relevant to a life-science curriculum. All kits are FREE and include guided teacher instructions for implementation, data tables and background materials, a video with guided lab instruction and background on FAS, a CD-ROM with all hardcopy materials and a post-assessment game, color transparencies, brochures, and ordering information for an accompanying hands-on experiment involving varying concentration levels of ethanol and the growth and development of brine shrimp. All components are available for current download, and will soon be made available for shipment through Carolina Biological Supply Company.
http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/Science/curriculum.html
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A special thanks to Join Together Online(jointogether.org), National Institute on Chemical Dependency, 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

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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