THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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1.  It's time to start planning for Kick Butts Day 2007
2.  Smoking Is Cool?
3.  65% of Kids Get Alcohol From Friend & Family
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  How Do We Win the War On Drugs?
6.  Italian Smoking Ban Prevents Heart Attacks
7.  FREE:  ICAP Blue Book
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1.  It's time to start planning for Kick Butts Day 2007

Mark your calendars for the next Kick Butts Day, Wednesday, March 28, 2007.
http://www.kickbuttsday.org/

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2.  "Fathers Mentoring Fathers" Seminar

Father Matters is presenting "Fathers Mentoring Fathers" Seminar in Phoenix, Arizona, Sat. Jan. 20, 2007. This free seminar is offered to men only. We also will be providing free continental breakfast and lunch. Childcare will not be available at this seminar, so no Children Please. This seminar will fill-up fast and seating is limited. PRE-REGISTER TODAY to ensure your space.
http://www.fathermatters.com/fmflyer.pdf
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Research commissioned by The Century Council reveals that 65% of underage youth who drink obtain alcohol from family and friends. Equally important, only 7% of youth report that they obtained alcohol from retailers who failed to check for identification.
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation; this finding suggests that if adolescents can be kept tobacco-free, most will never start using tobacco.
• Most adolescent smokers are addicted to nicotine and report that they want to quit but are unable to do so; they experience relapse rates and withdrawal symptoms similar to those reported by adults.
• Tobacco is often the first drug used by those young people who use alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs.
• Cigarette advertising appears to increase young people's risk of smoking by
  affecting their perceptions of the pervasiveness, image, and function of
  smoking.
• Community wide efforts that include tobacco tax increases, enforcement of minors' access laws, youth-oriented mass media campaigns, and school-based tobacco-use prevention programs are successful in reducing adolescent use of
  tobacco.

Source: SURGEON GENERAL’S REPORTS ON THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/index.htm

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5.  How Do We Win the War On Drugs?

Jack Cole looks like a middle-aged tourist – and last week he was visiting art galleries in Florence. Yesterday, however, he was on some of Glasgow's meaner streets with a Strathclyde police officer and a camera crew. When he takes off his jacket, his T-shirt reveals in eye-catchingly large letters the slogan: "Cops say legalise drugs. Ask me why."
http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/75541.html
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6.  Italian Smoking Ban Prevents Heart Attacks

Hospital admissions for heart attacks among people under age 60 fell 11 percent in Italy's Piedmont region after the Italian government imposed a ban on indoor smoking, researchers from the University of Turin said.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/italian-smoking-ban-prevents.html
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7.  FREE:  ICAP Blue Book
Practical Guides for Alcohol Policy and Prevention Approaches

The ICAP Blue Book offers a comprehensive guide to the key issues in alcohol policy development, and an integrated approach to prevention. It draws upon the best available research and experience from around the world.
http://www.icap.org/Publication/ICAPBlueBook/tabid/148/Default.aspx
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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

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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