THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  "Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you." ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

 
Saturday, September 29: 10am -5pm. You are invited to join us at the 3rd Annual Art of Recovery Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center. Admission is FREE!

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1.  Kids See More Booze Ads Than 'Responsibility' Ads
2.  Convenience Stores Big Offenders in Teen Tobacco Sales
3.  Smoking Linked to Stillbirths
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Nearly One in Three Americans Has History of Alcohol Problems
6.  The Effects of Drugs and Alcohol
7.  FREE:  New Guide on Preventing Underage Drinking
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1.  Kids See More Booze Ads Than 'Responsibility' Ads

Adolescents are 239 times more likely to see an ad touting alcohol than to view an industry-sponsored ad about 'responsible' drinking, according to a new study from the Center on Alcohol Marketing & Youth.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/kids-exposed-to-more-alcohol.html

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2.  Convenience Stores Big Offenders in Teen Tobacco Sales

Almost one in every 10 packs of cigarettes sold by gas-station convenience stores is sold to a minor, according to a new study from the Group Health Community Foundation.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/convenience-stores-big.html
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3.  Smoking Linked to Stillbirths

Women who smoked during two consecutive pregnancies had a 35-percent higher risk of delivering a stillborn baby than those who didn't smoke at all or only smoked during their first pregnancy, according to Swedish researchers. http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/smoking-causes-stillbirths.html
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Every day in the United States, more than 3,000 young people become regular smokers---that’s more than 1 million new smokers a year.
• After years of remaining steady, teen smoking rates have increased each year since 1992. In 1996, 22.2% of high school seniors smoked daily-up from 17.2% in 1992. Between 1991 and 1996, past-month smoking increased from 14.3% to 21.0% among eighth graders and from 20.8% to 30.4% among tenth graders.
• More than 5 million young people under the age of 18 who are currently alive will die prematurely from a smoking-related disease.
• Starting smoking at an early age greatly increases the risk of lung cancer. A person’s risk for most other smoking-related cancers also rises with the length of time that a person smokes.
• Teenage smokers suffer from shortness of breath almost three times as often as teens who don’t smoke and produce phlegm more than twice as often as teens who don’t smoke.

^{Source: http://www.worthit.org/facts/teenstobacco.asp}

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5.  Nearly One in Three Americans Has History of Alcohol Problems

More than 30 percent of Americans have met the criteria for an alcohol-use disorder sometime in their lives, according to a new report from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/nearly-one-in-three-americans.html
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6.  The Effects of Drugs and Alcohol

This site from the Pennsylvania DUI Association provides an excellent view of how alcohol and drugs affect the body and your ability to drive. 

http://www.padui.org/effect.htm
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7.  FREE:  New Guide on Preventing Underage Drinking

Designed to take communities through the process of planning, implementing, and evaluating strategies to prevent underage drinking and youth access to alcohol, this new free guide, published by RAND Corporation, is structured according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Strategic Prevention Framework. http://www.jointogether.org/news/yourturn/announcements/2007/preventing-underage-drinking.html

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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

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