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

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Quote of the Week:  "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." ~ Henry Ford
 

April is Alcohol Awareness Month

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1.  Heads Up:  Real News About Drugs and Your Body
2.  Young people able to buy beer at stores even without proper ID
3.  Tobacco Scam Website
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year
6.  Investments in Alcohol Treatment Can Boost Employers' Bottom Lines
7.  FREE:  Dual Diagnosis Toolkit
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1.  Heads Up:  Real News About Drugs and Your Body

A great site for students and teachers. 

Scholastic News: Heads Up

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2.  Young people able to buy beer at stores even without proper ID

Clerks at grocery and convenience stores were more likely to sell alcohol to a young person without asking for an ID than other stores.
http://www.pire.org/detail2.asp?core=38854&cms=114
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3.  Tobacco Scam Website

This is the site to see all the dirty tricks being used by the tobacco industry.
http://www.tobaccoscam.ucsf.edu/
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• “Cigarette smoking can adversely affect pulmonary function and disturb cardiopulmonary physiology.” p. 3.
• “Cigarette smoking is causally related to lung cancer in women but accounts for
  a smaller proportion of cases than in men.” p. 4.
• “Smoking is a significant factor in the causation of cancer of the larynx and in
  the development of cancer of the oral cavity.” p. 4.
• “Further epidemiological data strengthen the association of cigarette smoking with cancer of the bladder and cancer of the pancreas.” p. 4.

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

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5.  Pot Prisoners Cost Americans $1 Billion a Year

The latest numbers are out: nearly 800,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2005.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/47815/
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6.  Investments in Alcohol Treatment Can Boost Employers' Bottom Lines

By providing alcohol treatment for employees U.S. employers can contribute to community health and well-being while cutting down on their health care and other personnel costs. Leaders of many companies have learned that making available such treatment helps rather than hurts their bottom line. One recent study of government workers finds that employees treated for alcohol and other drug problems significantly improved attendance. Another employer, ChevronTexaco, reports alcohol treatment dramatically reduces worker turnover. http://www.ensuringsolutions.org/resources/resources_show.htm?doc_id=329454&cat_id=989
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7.  FREE:  Dual Diagnosis Toolkit

Produced in partnership with Turning Point, the UK's leading social care organisation, this toolkit provides background information to the issues surrounding dual diagnosis and offers a practical guide to delivering services. It includes information about substance misuse, mental health and policy background and features current treatment modules along with case studies and exercises for individuals or group work.
http://www.rethink.org/dualdiagnosis/toolkit.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), CDC, Ensuring Solutions 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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