THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  "You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now." ~ Joan Baez
 
 

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1.  Inhalants Video
2.  Alternative Programs Most Effective Prevention
3.  Online Inhalant Training for Parents
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Quitline Map
6.  Drinking Definitions
7.  FREE:  NIDA Releases Companion Guide to HBO's 'Addiction' Series
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1.  Inhalants Video

Watch how household products could be a problem. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEdx15nG0k0&mode=related&search=

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2.  Alternative Programs Most Effective Prevention

A report by the U.S. Center on Substance Abuse Prevention stated that "alternatives programming appears to be most effective among those youth at greatest risk for substance abuse and related problems." According to the report, alternatives are defined as, "those that provide targeted populations with activities that are free of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs."
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/preveduc.htm
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3.  Online Inhalant Training for Parents

The New England Inhalant Abuse Prevention Coalition, a CSAP funded project, has created an on-line training for parents on inhalant abuse. Parents can now go to http://www.inhalantabusetraining.org and take a 20-30 minute course that will teach them what they need to know about the dangers of inhalant abuse, how to talk with their kids about it, and where to follow up for more information.
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Cigarette smokers tend to die at earlier ages and experience more days of disability than comparable nonsmokers.
• If it were not for cigarette smoking, practically none of the earlier deaths from lung cancer would have occurred; nor a substantial portion of the earlier deaths from chronic bronchopulmonary diseases; nor a portion of the earlier deaths
  of cardiovascular origin. Excess disability from chronic pulmonary and cardiovascular disease would also be less.
• Cessation or appreciable reduction of cigars & smoking could delay or avert a substantial portion of deaths which occur from lung cancer, a substantial portion of the earlier deaths and excess disability from chronic bronchopulmonary
  diseases, and a portion of the earlier deaths and excess disability of cardiovascular origin.

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

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5.  Quitline Map

The North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) seeks to unite health departments, quitline service providers, researchers and national organizations in the United States and Canada to enable these quitline professionals to learn from each other and to improve quitline services.

http://www.naquitline.org/index.asp?dbsection=map&dbid=1
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6.  Drinking Definitions

What is a standard drink? A standard drink contains half an ounce of alcohol, which can be found in a 12-ounce can of beer, a 5-ounce glass of wine or 1.5 ounces of 80 proof distilled spirits.
What is moderate drinking? The U.S.government defines moderate drinking as not more than two drinks per day for men and not more than one drink per day for women. Moderate drinking for older people is one drink per day (or less), because of age-related changes in metabolism.
What is heavy drinking? People who drink five or more drinks on at least five occasions during a month are considered heavy drinkers in federal government surveys, but it is important to remember that alcohol problems can and do occur at much lower levels of consumption.
What is binge drinking? People who drink five or more drinks on at least one occasion during a month are considered binge drinkers.When heavy drinkers consume five or more drinks on a single occasion, they are “bingeing,” but not everyone who binges is a chronic heavy drinker. People who binge, however, put themselves at serious risk for an alcohol problem.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (2002a, 1997). http://www.ensuringsolutions.org/usr_doc/Primer2Continuum.pdf
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7.  FREE:  NIDA Releases Companion Guide to HBO's 'Addiction' Series

The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has released a layman's guide to alcohol and other drug addiction to complement the new HBO documentary series "Addiction," which premieres in Washington, D.C., this week.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/nida-releases-companion-guide.html
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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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