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Quote of the Week:  "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
 
 

March 18^th to 24^t,h 2007 is the 15^th Annual National Inhalants & Poisons Awareness Week (NIPAW)

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1.  Prescription Drugs: Their Use and Abuse
2.  Workplace Secondhand Smoke Ups Cancer Risk
3.  The Dangers of Inhalant Abuse
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Drugs Continue to Kill Baby Boomers
6.  New Addiction Related Brain Region Identified
7.  FREE:  Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change
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1.  Prescription Drugs: Their Use and Abuse

A prescription label is not just a bunch of words. It's a doctor's instructions to a patient: Only this person can take this medication, in this amount, for this length of time. When the medication is taken on purpose for any other reason, that is called abuse.
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/headsup/support/prescription.pdf
http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/headsup/support/NIDA1-Article.pdf

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2.  Workplace Secondhand Smoke Ups Cancer Risk

Researchers found lung cancer risk for nonsmokers exposed for 30 years to secondhand smoke on the job jumped by 50 percent. Nonsmokers exposed to any secondhand smoke in the workplace experienced a 24 percent increased risk that rose based on level and duration of exposure.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=&storyid=2007-02-01T145104Z_01_N31492156_RTRUKOC_0_US-SMOKING-SECONDHAND.xml&src=nl_ushealth1100
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3.  The Dangers of Inhalant Abuse

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1559995951783590197&hl=en
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• In addition, evidence herein presented shows that life expectancy among young men is reduced by an average of 8 years in “heavy” smokers, those who smoke over 2 packs a day, and an average of 4 years in “light” cigarette smokers, those who smoke less than one-half pack per day.
• Because of the increasing convergence of epidemiological and physiological findings relating cigarette smoking to coronary heart disease, it is concluded that cigarette smoking can contribute to the development of cardiovascular disease and particularly to death from coronary heart disease.
• Additional physiological and epidemiological evidence confirms the previous findings that cigarette smoking is the most important cause of chronic nonneoplastic bronchopulmonary disease in the United States.

Source: SURGEON GENERAL’S REPORTS ON THE HEALTH CONSEQUENCES OF SMOKING *******************************

5.  Drugs Continue to Kill Baby Boomers

Both current and past drug use continues to kill members of the "baby boomer" generation.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/drugs-continue-to-kill-baby.html
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6.  New Addiction Related Brain Region Identified

Some stroke victims who suffered damage to an area of the brain called the insula lost the desire to smoke a startling revelation to researchers who never considered that this part of the brain was involved in addiction.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/new-addiction-related-brain.html
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7.  FREE: 

Learn what you need to know about inhalants before your kids does.
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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.

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