THE RUN DRUGS OUT OF TOWN RUN'S PREVENTION NEWS
 

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Quote of the Week:  "People of character do the right thing, not because they think it will change the world but because they refuse to be changed by the world." ~ Michael Josephson
 
This is Drug Free Work Week 

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1.  Too Smart to Start Crossword Puzzles
2.  Test Your Brain On Pot
3.  Responding to Tough Questions About Teen Drinking
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  Irish Smoking Ban Credited with Cutting Heart Attacks
6.  Prevention Efforts Need to Go Beyond Schools 
7.  FREE: Recognizing Drug Use in Adolescents: A Quick Guide for Caregivers and Adults
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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? Try our one of our crossword puzzles to learn more.
http://toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/youth/crosswords.aspx

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2.  Test Your Brain On Pot

Find out what pot does to your brain and inside your noggin. http://www.abovetheinfluence.org/facts/test-your-head.aspx?path=home
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3.  Responding to Tough Questions About Teen Drinking

Learn how to respond to tough questions from teens about drinking like; Did you drink when you were a teen? & If my friends and I are old enough to go to war and die for our country, why can’t we have a beer at 18?
http://www.why21.org/parents/questions.html
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• An estimated 6.3 million Americans aged 12 and older use prescription drugs nonmedically.
• Pain relievers are the most highly abused of prescription drugs.
• Almost 48 million Americans—or 20 percent—have
used prescription drugs nonmedically at least once in their lifetimes.
• Almost 2.5 million persons used pain relievers nonmedically for the first time in 2002—44 percent were under the age of 18.
• One in five teens report having used a prescription painkiller without a doctor’s prescription.
• There were almost 84,000 admissions to treatment involving narcotic painkillers in 2002.
• The largest increase in treatment
admissions for prescription drug abuse between
1997 and 2002 occurred among those aged 20 to 30.
• Twenty states have prescription
monitoring programs in place targeting diversion and potential abuse.

Source:  http://www.carnevaleassociates.com/CAPolBrief-PrescriptionDrugs.pdf

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5.  Irish Smoking Ban Credited with Cutting Heart Attacks

Hospital admissions for heart attacks declined 11 percent in the year after smoking was banned in workplaces across Ireland, according to researchers at Cork University.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2007/irish-smoking-ban-credited.html
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6.  Prevention Efforts Need to Go Beyond Schools

In April 2006, Join Together and Communitas Online, with funding from the Gift of the Magi Foundation, conducted a survey of 3,500 kindergarten through twelfth-grade educators in the U.S.

Based on the findings of our survey and other research, we conclude that schools should not be relied on as the primary element in the country's prevention efforts. We need a comprehensive approach that includes families, schools, and the community as a whole.
http://www.jointogether.org/keyissues/education/
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7.  FREE: Recognizing Drug Use in Adolescents: A Quick Guide for Caregivers and Adults

This pamphlet summarizes signs of intoxication, use, and abuse commonly reported by substance users and provides descriptions of numerous substances and their use.
http://www.nctsnet.org/nctsn_assets/pdfs/C_Infocards_4-18-07_5-4-07.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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