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Quote of the Week:  "Sometimes life's shadows are caused by stanging in our own sunshine." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
 

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1.  Too Smart to Start Crossword Puzzles
2.  Study Praises Prevention Based on 'Competence Skills'
3.  How to Take the "High" Out of Higher Education
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Changes at Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
6.  H.O.P.E. for Reform
7.  FREE: How to Hold Crucial Conversations About Drugs With Your Teenager
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1.  Too Smart to Start Crossword Puzzles

How much do you know about how alcohol affects your body and your behavior?
http://toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/youth/crosswords.aspx

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2.  Study Praises Prevention Based on 'Competence Skills'

A new study finds that teaching teens 'competence skills' -- such as good self-management and positive psychological characteristics -- can effectively reduce adolescent alcohol and other drug use.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/study-praises-prevention.html

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3.  How to Take the "High" Out of Higher Education

Only one-fifth of administrators at U.S. colleges and universities believe that the school bears primary responsibility to prevent alcohol abuse and drug use among their students, according to a recent report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The two most frequently mentioned barriers to implementing more effective substance use prevention policies and programs were that student substance use is seen as a normal rite of passage (37.8%) and limited financial resources/funding (34.3%).
http://www.cesar.umd.edu/cesar/cesarfax/vol16/16-13.pdf

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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Cigarette smoking has been causally related to all four of the major histologic types of lung cancer in both women and men, including epidermoid, small cell,
  large cell and adenocarcinoma.” p. 8.
• “Recent statistics indicate a rising death rate due to chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) among women. The data available demonstrate an excess risk of
  death from COLD among smoking women over that of nonsmoking women.  This excess risk is much greater for heavy smokers than for light smokers.” p. 9.
• “The relationship between maternal smoking and reduced birth weight is independent of all other factors that influence birth weight including race, parity, maternal size, socioeconomic status, and sex of child; it is also independent of gestational age.” p. 10.
• “Increasing levels of maternal smoking result in a highly significant increase in the risk of abruptio placentae, placenta previa, bleeding early or late in pregnancy, premature and prolonged rupture of membranes, and preterm delivery all of which carry high risks of prenatal loss.” p. 11.
• “Up to 14 percent of all preterm deliveries in the United States may be attributable to maternal smoking.” p. 11.
• “Studies in women and men suggest that cigarette smoking may impair fertility.” p. 12.

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

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5.  Changes at Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

On May 10, the LTDL site was replaced by the new and improved LTDL. The new site will have a new design and new features including better search capabilities but will retain the established URL: http://www.legacy.library.ucsf.edu.
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6.  H.O.P.E. for Reform

Probation would be a great alternative to incarceration -- if anyone knew how to get probationers to comply with probation rules. Now there's reason for hope. A novel program in Hawaii is demonstrating that it is possible to re-invent community supervision in a way that helps probationers toe the line, cuts recidivism, and curbs their flow to over-crowed jails and prisons.
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=12628

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7.  FREE: How to Hold Crucial Conversations About Drugs With Your Teenager

Order the Crucial Conversations Tip Card, which outlines specific skills that parents can adopt in order talk with their teen about difficult topics, like drugs and alcohol. Download from TheAntiDrug.com or call the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information at (800)788-2800 to order.
 http://www.theantidrug.com/pdfs/resources/general/crucial-conversations.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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