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1.  Welcome to DrugFacts
2.  What does it take to BECOME AN EX?
3.  Mary Quits Smoking
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Effects of Drivers' License Suspension Policies on Alcohol-Related Crash Involvement
6.  Important New Tobacco Database

7.  FREE: Prevention Education in America’s Schools
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1.  Welcome to DrugFacts

Use the arrows below to skip through the facts. When you get to the end, you may also download all of these DrugFacts and more in a single PDF.
http://www.up-2-you.net/drugs.asp

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2.  What does it take to BECOME AN EX?

Tobacco addiction is complex, and over time it works its way into almost every aspect of your life. Digging it out will take some thinking, a plan and then effort.
http://www.becomeanex.org/core/whatittakes.aspx
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3.  Mary Quits Smoking

Mary, too, is a real person — an office worker from Washington, D.C. This is her fourth attempt at quitting. Her story was documented over the course of four weeks during the summer. You can watch Mary make a plan and become an EX, all on camera. Some of the steps in her plan are obvious, while others take more thought. But none of them are impossible.

Get an idea of what’s involved in starting your own EX Quit Plan program from Mary's experiences.
http://www.maryquits.com/skins/maryquits/splash.aspx?bhcp=1
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• The incidences of youth physically attacking others, stealing, and destroying property increased in proportion to the number of days marijuana was smoked in the past year.
• Marijuana users were twice as likely as non-users to report they disobeyed school rules.
• Of those students who reported threatening someone with a gun, knife or club or threatening to hit, slap or kick someone during the 2005-2006 school year, 27% also reported using marijuana, 7.8% reported using cocaine and 6.2% reported using crystal meth in the past year.
• During the 2005-2006 school year, of those students who reported any trouble with the police, 39.6% also reported using marijuana, 12.2% reported using cocaine, and 9%
  reported using crystal meth in the past year.

Source:  http://cadca.org/CoalitionResources/PP-documents/TheInextricableLink.pdf

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5.  Effects of Drivers' License Suspension Policies on Alcohol-Related Crash Involvement

The researchers found laws that imposed a license suspension immediately after an offense was committed reduced the numbers of alcohol-related fatal car accidents by 5 percent, which could amount to at least 800 lives saved annually. The law had the same effect on drinking drivers whether they were below or above the legal limit for blood alcohol concentration.

http://www.rwjf.org/pr/product.jsp?id=19251&catid=15
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6.  Important New Tobacco Database

Welcome to TobaccoWiki, the online research project to which anyone--even you--can contribute. We need your help to mine the millions of pages of previously-secret, internal tobacco industry documents now posted on the Internet.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Portal:Tobacco
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7.  FREE: Prevention Education in America’s Schools

Join Together has surveyed 3,500 teachers and written this report of their findings on prevention in schools. If you teach, work with kids or simply care about them you will not want to miss this.
http://www.jointogether.org/aboutus/ourpublications/pdf/prevention-report.pdf
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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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