THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

Is Your Business Ready for the New Smoke Free Arizona Law?

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Quote of the Week:  "Anything can happen, child. Anything can be." ~ Shel Silvertein
 
 

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1.  When Don’t Smoke Means Do
2.  Test your knowledge about alcohol and drugs
3.  Silence Isn't Golden; It's Permission
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Cost of Alcohol-Related Crimes Higher Than Drug-Related Crime
6.  Many Drivers Test Positive for Illicit Drugs
7.  FREE:  The Role of Primary Care in Substance Abuse Treatment
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1.  When Don’t Smoke Means Do

Philip Morris has adopted the role of good citizen these days. Its Web site brims with information on the dangers of smoking, and it has mounted a campaign of television spots that urge parents, oh so earnestly, to warn their children against smoking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/opinion/27mon1.html

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2.  Test your knowledge about alcohol and drugs

http://www.sbwi.org/programs/documents/AlcoholDrugsQuiz.pdf
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3.  Silence Isn't Golden; It's Permission

No loving relationship can exist without good communication. Teens believe they have valuable things to say, and when a parent genuinely listens, it helps self-esteem and confidence. It will take more than five
minutes to talk to your teen about drugs and alcohol - it's about building an ongoing dialogue.

Start a Conversation:
http://www.theantidrug.com/advice/advice_start_convo.asp
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• In view of the continuing and mounting evidence from many sources, it is the judgment of the Committee that cigarette smoking contributes substantially to mortality from certain specific diseases and to the overall death rate.
• Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in men; the magnitude of
  the effect of cigarette smoking far outweighs all other factors.
• Cigarette smoking is the most important of the causes of chronic bronchitis in the United States, and increases the risk of dying from chronic bronchitis and emphysema.
• It is established that male cigarette smokers have a higher death rate from coronary artery disease than non-smoking males. Although the causative role of cigarette smoking in deaths from coronary disease is not proven.
• Pipe smoking appears to be causally related to lip cancer. Cigarette smoking is a significant factor in the causation of cancer of the larynx.
   

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

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5.  Cost of Alcohol-Related Crimes Higher Than Drug-Related Crime

Drug use is often associated with crime, but the costs of crimes that can be attributed to alcohol are twice the costs that can be attributed to drugs, according to a study published in the December issue of Prevention Science, a peer reviewed publication of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR).
http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1380
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6.  Many Drivers Test Positive for Illicit Drugs

A new study finds that one-third of all drivers pulled over for suspicion of impaired driving tested positive for illicit drugs even though they were under the legal limit for driving with alcohol in their systems.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/many-drivers-test-positive.html
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7.  FREE:  The Role of Primary Care in Substance Abuse Treatment

www.talkpoint.com/substanceabusetreatment   You can also download the presentation packet prior to the start of the webcast. It contains resources, presentations and valuable information related to the subject of the webcast. The packet can be downloaded from:  www.nashp.org/files/presentationmaterials1-19.pdf
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Is Your Business Ready for the New Smoke Free Arizona Law?

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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