THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  "Quitting smoking is easy. I've done it a thousand times." -- Mark Twain
 
 

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1.  Too Smart to Start Word Search Puzzles
2.  Nicotine's Double Effect On the Brain
3.  Heart Hurt by Smoking During Pregnancy
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Cigarette Use May Explain Asthma Epidemic
6.  International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
7.  FREE:  International Harm Reduction Association
"50 Best" Tobacco Harm Reduction Papers
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1.  Too Smart to Start Word Search Puzzles

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

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2.  Nicotine's Double Effect On the Brain

See how nicotine affects the brain and why it is a tougher drug to quit.http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/headsup/intro/index.asp?article=nicotine

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3.  Heart Hurt by Smoking During Pregnancy

Women who smoke while pregnant risk doing long-term damage to the hearts of their unborn children, animal studies suggest.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/heart-hurt-by-smoking-during.html
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:  Alcohol and Youth

• Young persons reporting first use of alcohol before age 15 were more than 5 times as likely to have past alcohol dependence or abuse compared with persons who first used alcohol at age 21 or older (16 % vs. 3%) .20
• Approximately 20% of 8 th graders, 35% of 10 th graders, and 48% of 12th graders report having consumed alcohol during the past month.21
• About 12% of 8 th, 22% of 10 th, and 28% of 12th graders report binge drinking (five or more drinks on a single occasion during the past two weeks).22
• Almost 40% of high school seniors perceive no great risk in consuming four to five drinks nearly every day.23

Source:  http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org/infofaq/alcohol.aspx

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5.  Cigarette Use May Explain Asthma Epidemic

The rise in cigarette use by adults over the past century may explain the asthma epidemic in children according to a study by researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=25383
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6.  International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking

The slogan of the UNODC anti-drugs campaign to be launched on 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, is "Do drugs control your life? Your life. Your community. No place for drugs." The slogan will be used for three years and focus on different aspects of drug control: drug abuse in 2007, drug cultivation and production in 2008, and illicit drug trafficking in 2009.
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/event_2007_06_26_1.html#Logos

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7.  FREE:  International Harm Reduction Association
"50 Best" Tobacco Harm Reduction Papers

Approaches that aim to reduce the harm for those who continue to use tobacco / nicotine have received little attention to date. This set of documents is intended for people who are interested in how harm reduction can be applied to tobacco use. These documents may be used to improve advocacy for tobacco harm reduction, carry out research or develop new policy. They may also be used to plan new services or improve or evaluate existing services. This collection is intended to benefit policy makers, practitioners, communities and tobacco users around the world. These harm reduction approaches should be seen as an additional and complementary strategy to the other key tobacco control strategies.
http://www.ihra.net/TobaccoHarmReduction
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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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