THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN
RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
02/04/08
Vol. 8 # 5
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Quote of the Week: "Two wrongs
don't make a right, but they make a good excuse." ~ Thomas Szasz
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1.
New Research Sheds Light on Nicotine Addiction.
2. Study Finds That Heart Attacks In Non-smokers Decreased With
Smoking Ban
3. 99% of Americans Wouldn't Use Hard Drugs If Legal
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. The War on Drugs by the Numbers
6. Screening for Alcohol Problems a Cost Effective Strategy
7. FREE: The Neurobiology of Drug Addiction
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1.
New Resolution Names Feb 11-16 National Drug Prevention and Education
Week
This week Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Senate Caucus on International
Narcotics Control, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. (D-DE) and Charles Grassley
(R-IA), introduced a resolution designating the week of February 10-16,
2008 as National Drug Prevention and Education Week. The resolution
encourages communities to carry out programs and activities to educate
parents and youth about the dangers of drug use.
http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1757
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2. Study Finds That Heart Attacks In
Non-smokers Decreased With Smoking Ban
People with no risk factors for heart disease can still experience heart
attacks. An Indiana University study found that after a countywide
smoking ban was implemented, hospital admissions for heart attacks
dropped 70 percent for non-smokers, but not for smokers.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/89247.php
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3. 99% of Americans Wouldn't Use Hard
Drugs If Legal
Zogby poll suggests prohibition doesn't reduce use.
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle_blog/2007/dec/05/poll_hard_drug_legalization_little_use
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4. JUST THE FACTS:
- The federal government estimates
that, 8.9 percent of full-time workers – 12.7
million people - have drinking problems.
- Alcohol costs American
business an estimated $134 billion in productivity losses,
mostly due to missed work: 65.3 percent of this cost was
caused by alcohol-related illness, 27.2 percent due to
premature death, and 7.5 percent to crime.
- People with alcoholism and problem
drinkers are more likely than other workers to have had
three or more employers during the last year; to have missed
work more than two days in the past month due to illness or
injury; and to have skipped work more than two days in the
past month.
- People with alcoholism use twice
as much sick leave as other employees. They are five times
more likely to file workmen's compensation claims; and they
are more likely to cause injuries to themselves or others
while on the job.
- Twenty percent of workers say they
have been injured, have had to cover for a coworker, or
needed to work harder because of other employees' drinking.
- More than half of working family
members of alcoholics report that their own ability to
function at work and at home was negatively impacted by
their family member's drinking.
Source:
http://www.ensuringsolutions.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=332747&cat_id=987
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5. The War on Drugs by the Numbers
Over the last 20 years every family of four has paid the equivalent of
$28,122 to support the Drug War.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_louis_na_071228_ron_paul_and_the_war.htm
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6. Screening for Alcohol Problems a Cost
Effective Strategy
New data shows that a 10-minute screening and talk with a doctor about
problem drinking delivers almost as much bang for the buck to the health
system as childhood immunization and advice about taking aspirin to
prevent stroke and heart attack, according to a new systematic review.
However, just 8.7 percent of problem drinkers report receiving such
information.
http://cadca.org/CoalitionsOnline/article.asp?id=1723
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7. FREE: The Neurobiology of Drug
Addiction
Teaching Packet II, For Health Practitioners, Teachers, and
Neuroscientists
http://www.drugabuse.gov/pubs/teaching/Teaching2/Teaching.html
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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
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