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05/21/07
Vol. 7 #21
Is
Your Business Ready for the New Smoke Free Arizona Law?
We aim to bring you the latest information on drug abuse prevention
for students, parents and professionals. If you do not find this
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If you would like to help the kids in your
community check out our web site at
http://rundrugsoutoftownrun.org and consider
staging a Run Drugs Out of Town Run.
Quote of the Week: "Sometimes life's shadows are caused
by stanging in our own sunshine." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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1. What A Kid Can Do:
Waahid Azizuddin
2. Harvard Advises Hollywood to Ban Smoking
3. Talk with Your Fifth Graders About Underage Alcohol Use, Family
Resource Guide
4. JUST THE FACTS
5. Atlas, Athena Programs Address Drugs in Sports
6. Facts for Educators
7. FREE: Ethics and Drug Policy paper now online
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1. What A Kid Can Do:
Waahid Azizuddin
Last year Waahid Azizuddin
formed the South Asian Club of Oak Park High School and put together a
Hoop-a-thon to raise over $3,000 to help former child slaves in India. You
can help Waahid and his friends raise a lot more this year.
http://www.ourvoicestogether.org/hoops
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2. Harvard Advises Hollywood to Ban Smoking
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) announced last year
that it was seeking advice on smoking from the Harvard School of Public
Health (HSPH), and now the Harvard recommendations are in: remove all
smoking from films that are accessible to children and youth.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/harvard-advises-hollywood-to.html
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3. Talk with Your Fifth Graders About Underage Alcohol Use,
Family Resource Guide
http://www.teachin.samhsa.gov/media/teachin/SAM5Family.pdf
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4. JUST THE FACTS: Alcohol and Women
- Women are more vulnerable than men to many of the medical
consequences of alcohol use. Alcoholic women develop cirrhosis,
damage of the heart muscle (i.e., cardiomyopathy), and nerves (i.e.,
peripheral neuropathy) after fewer years of heavy drinking than
alcoholic men.
- Women develop organ damage faster, and at lower levels of
alcohol consumption then men. This is because a woman’s body
generally has less water than a man’s causing their blood alcohol
content to reach higher level, faster.
- Alcohol use may affect female reproductive. Adolescent girls who
consume even moderate amounts of alcohol may experience disrupted
growth and puberty. Heavy drinking in adult women can disrupt normal
menstrual cycling and reproductive functions. Alcohol abuse and
alcoholism can cause women to suffer from infertility, increased
risk for spontaneous abortion, and impaired fetal growth and
development.
- Women overall drink less than men but are more likely to
experience adverse consequences including damage to the heart
muscle, liver, and brain, trauma resulting from auto crashes,
interpersonal violence, and death.16
The progression of alcoholism appears to be faster in women than in
men.
Source:
http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/infofaq/alcohol.aspx
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5. Atlas, Athena Programs Address Drugs in Sports
The ATLAS and ATHENA anti-drug programs developed at Oregon Health and
Sciences University address alcohol and other drug use among athletes,
so it's no surprise that the curriculum is based on a team approach.
Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition Alternatives (ATHENA)
program is designed for girls, while ATLAS, (Athletes Training and
Learning to Avoid Steroids) is intended for boys.
http://www.ohsu.edu/hpsm/athena.html
http://www.ohsu.edu/hpsm/atlas.htm
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6. Facts for Educators
Drug prevention education is more than teaching the facts about drugs --
it is teaching children and youth about themselves, what is possible in
their life now, and what is possible for the future.
http://www.acde.org/educate/Default.htm
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7. FREE: Ethics and Drug Policy paper now online
Back in Feburary Transform Drug Policy Foundation published the abstract
of an excellent paper by Alex Wodak discussing ethics and drug policy in
the journal Psychiatry. They complained about how it cost $30 to read
the full paper. Well, for whatever reason, the kind publishers at
science direct have relented and decided to make the full paper
available online for your cost-free reading pleasure. Don't miss this
one.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B82Y7-4MW949Y-1&_user=10&_coverDate=02%2F28%2F2007&_alid=562050250&_rdoc=1&_fmt=full&_orig=search&_cdi=33051&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_ct=63&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=8ec2ef352334f95e3aafcf324e30b646
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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
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