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1.  Don't Serve Teens
2.  Surgeon General Says Parents Must Model Responsible Drinking
3.  SAMHSA Takes Snapshot of Teen Drug Use  
4.  JUST THE FACTS
5.  For Employers
6.  Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter
7.  FREE:  Creating Smoke-Free Recreational Areas
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1.  Don't Serve Teens

This website provides parents and others with tools and information to reduce teen drinking and related harm.
http://www.dontserveteens.gov/

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2.  Surgeon General Says Parents Must Model Responsible Drinking

U.S. Surgeon General Kenneth Moritsugu said that the fact that he didn't drink alcohol until after age 21 had a lot to do with the good role models provided by his parents.
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2007pres/20070306.html
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3.  SAMHSA Takes Snapshot of Teen Drug Use

On any given day, about 1.2 million American teens smoke, 631,000 drink alcohol, and 586,000 use marijuana, says SAMHSA.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2007/samhsa-takes-snapshot-of-teen.html
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4.  JUST THE FACTS:

• Teens are turning away from street drugs and using prescription drugs to get high. New users of prescription drugs have caught up with new users of marijuana.
• Next to marijuana, the most common illegal drugs teens are using to get high are prescription medications.
• Teens are abusing prescription drugs because they believe the myth that these drugs provide a medically safe high.
• The majority of teens get prescription drugs easily and for free, often from friends or relatives.
• Girls are more likely than boys to intentionally abuse prescription drugs to get high.
• Pain relievers such as OxyContin and Vicodin are the most commonly abused prescription drugs by teens.
• Adolescents are more likely than young adults to become dependent on prescription medication.

Source:  http://www.mediacampaign.org/teens/brochure.pdf

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5.  For Employers

The cost of traffic-related crashes to employers is an estimated $55 billion each year in direct costs, lost time and workers' compensation.
http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/alcohol/DesignatedDriver/employers1.html
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6.  Crack Users Do More Time Than People Convicted of Manslaughter

When crack cocaine possession means 24 years in prison and manslaughter means only 3, you know something is seriously wrong with the U.S. criminal justice system
http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/65406/
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7.  FREE:  Creating Smoke-Free Recreational Areas

Here's a new tool from the Technical Assistance Legal Center - which is based in California - and funded by the California Department of Health Services. Increasingly, many California communities are interested in limiting secondhand smoke exposure and tobacco use in areas such as parks, playgrounds and sports fields. By addressing tobacco use outdoors, an ordinance prohibiting smoking or all tobacco use in recreational areas also helps limit tobacco-related litter.
For a copy of the two page planning tool: http://talc.phlaw.org/pdf_files/0083.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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