THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
 

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1.  Not What I Once Was
2.  Surgeon General's Secondhand Smoke Video Now on You Tube
3.  American Lung Association Grades States and Federal Government on Tobacco Control Policy
4.  JUST THE FACTS:  Alcohol’s Effects on the Brain
5.  Alcohol Involved in One-Third of Suicides
6.  Infant May Be Harmed by Alcohol in First Trimester
7.  FREE:  Guiding Stars of the New Parenting Movement Volume 1
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1.  Not What I Once Was

Test your tobacco knowledge by taking this quiz on the various ways in which smoking adversely affects your health.
http://thescooponsmoking.org/xhtml/quizzes/notWhatIOnceWas.php

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2.  Surgeon General's Secondhand Smoke Video Now on You Tube

A powerful video entitled Secondhand Smoke: Triumphs and Tragedies about the impact of secondhand smoke, and the positive benefits of smokefree environments. The video accompanied the release of Surgeon General Carmona's report on secondhand smoke last June.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmcDXfdPzCw
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3.  American Lung Association Grades States and Federal Government on Tobacco Control Policy

On Tuesday January 9, the American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2006 report was released. The report grades state tobacco control policies in four key areas: tobacco prevention spending, smokefree air laws, cigarette tax and youth access laws. The report also grades the federal government in four areas: Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulation of tobacco products, cessation, cigarette tax and the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC).
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M72270898553522039484865
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:  Alcohol’s Effects on the Brain
 

• Adolescent drinkers scored worse than non-drinkers on vocabulary, general information, memory recall and visual-spatial functioning. The hippocampus in underage binge drinkers has also been found to be smaller than non-drinkers.
• Adolescent binge drinkers perform worse in school, are more likely to fall behind, have higher possibility of school drop-out, and have an increased risk of social problems, depression, suicide thoughts and violence.
• Binge drinkers are also more likely to earn grades that are mostly D’s and F’s in school.
  Heavy drinking over many years may result in serious mental disorders or permanent, irreversible damage to the brain or nervous system.
• Teens are less sensitive to the effects of alcohol, which allows teens to drink longer than adults, giving them the feeling that “I can hold my liquor.” For teens, heavy drinking can lead to adaptations in the brain that requires more and more alcohol in the future in order to feel the same pleasurable effects from the alcohol. These changes affect the “hard-wiring” of the nervous system.
• People who reported starting to drink before the age of 15 were four times more likely than those who delayed onset of alcohol use to become dependent on alcohol at some point in their lives.
   

Source:  http://captus.samhsa.gov/central/documents/Eye.Prevent.Teen-Alcohol-Brains_2.pdf

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5.  Alcohol Involved in One-Third of Suicides

A third of suicide victims in a recent study had alcohol in their system, and about 10 percent tested positive for other drugs, such as opiates, cocaine, marijuana, or amphetamines, according to researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/alcohol-involved-in-one-third.html
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6.  Infant May Be Harmed by Alcohol in First Trimester

New findings on the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure suggest the days between conception and pregnancy recognition may be critical for the development of stress-response systems among infants whose mothers consume alcohol
http://psychcentral.com/news/2006/11/28/infant-may-be-harmed-by-alcohol-in-first-trimester/
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7.  FREE:  Recovery Month Kit

The National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month Planner will help you organize your program for Recovery Month in September.  This year's theme is "Saving Lives, Saving Dollars"

Email recoverymonth@iqsolutions.com to order a kit.

Please include your full mailing address.
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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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