Welcome Consortium Members

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• Welcome Consortium Members

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Alcohol Awareness Month

• According to the Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health Services Administration, about 10.7
  million persons aged 12 to 20 (27.9 percent of
  this age group) reported drinking alcohol in the
  past month.
• Approximately 7.2 million or 18.6 percent were
  considered binge drinkers, and 2.3 million or 6
  percent were heavy drinkers.

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Internet Resources
Alcohol Policy Information Systemwww.alcoholpoli
cy.niaaa.nih.gov CADCAs Support 21 Toolkit
www.cadca.org/CoalitionResources/publicpolicy/sup
port21.asp Drug-Free Action Alliance
http//www.drugfreeactionalliance.org/ MADD
http//www.madd.org/ National Clearinghouse on
Alcohol and Drug Information ncadi.samhsa.gov/
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism www.niaaa.nih.gov Preventing
Underage Drinking Using Getting To Outcomes
www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR403/
STOP Underage Drinking www.stopalcoholabuse.go
v Surgeon Generals Call to Action to Prevent
and Reduce Underage Drinking 2007
www.surgeongeneral.gov/topics/underagedrinking/cal
ltoaction.pdf The Surgeon Generals A Guide to
Action for Communitieswww.surgeongeneral.gov/top
ics/underagedrinking/communityguide.pdf
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Prom and GraduationA Special Yet Dangerous Time

• Parents
• Help your student plan an alcohol/ drug-free
  celebration
• Establish and enforce curfew
• Know and verify your teens plans
• Know the law
• School Administrators
• Enforce your schools alcohol and other drug
  policy
• Law Enforcement Officers
• Work with your schools and community leaders to
  enforce the law

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Warning Signs of Alcohol Poisoning

• Vomiting
• Person cannot be roused
• Semi-conscious or Unconscious
• If you see someone with one or more of these
  symptoms,
• CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY!
• Waiting can result in brain damage, coma, or
  death.
• Every Second Counts!

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Restrictions on Alcoholic Energy Drinks

• Montana legislators approve to restrict sales of
  alcoholic energy drinks to liquor stores
• Effectively treats drinks containing stimulants
  like caffeine, taurine or ginseng and 0.5 percent
  alcohol or more like hard liquor for sales
  purposes

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Adults Provide Free Alcohol to Underage Drinkers

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  (SAMHSA) found that more than 40 percent of
  youths ages 12 to 20 who used alcohol in the past
  30 days reported receiving alcohol from an adult
• One in 16 underage drinkers, or an estimated
  650,000 youths, had received alcohol from a
  parent or guardian in the past month.
• 30.3 percent of underage drinkers reported that
  they were in their own home when they had their
  last drink

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French Look to Curb Youth Drinking

• Legislation would raise the minimum purchase age
  of tobacco and alcohol from 16 to 18
• Legislation was proposed in response to a 50
  rise in the number of minors under the age of 15
  hospitalized due to alcohol problems between 2004
  and 2007
• Despite this increase there has been a general
  decline in per-capita alcohol consumption from
  17.7 liters of wine per person a year in 1961 to
  less than 9.3 liters today

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PPAAUS Survey and National Survey Data

• PPAAUS was conducted by Safe and Drug-Free
  Schools Consortium, United Way, ADAMH, Columbus
  Medical Association Foundation, U.S. Department
  of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and
  Mental Health Service Administration , Center
  for Substance Abuse Prevention Grant, and
  Diagnostics Plus
• National Survey was conducted by Department of
  Health and Human Services and Centers for Disease
  Control and Prevention

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NetCare Follow-Up
 

• Directions for Youth and Families
• Huckleberry House
• Wesley Family Services/UMCH
• Dublin Counseling Center
• Ohio Youth Advocate Program
• Family Focus- final determination by the
  psychologist.

Accept NetCare Assessments
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Mexican Drug Lord Makes Forbes Billionaire List

• Net Worth 1.0 billion Fortune Self Made
  Source Drug Trafficking Age 54 Country Of
  Citizenship Mexico Residence Sinaloa State
  Industry Shipping
• Escaped from federal prison in 2001, reportedly
  through the laundry, and quickly regained control
  of his drug trafficking organization, which he
  still controls today.
• U.S. government is offering a 5 million reward
  for his capture.

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Middle Schoolers Smoke Smarties Candy

• How they do it.
• Students crush the sugary candy discs into a
  powder,
• Tear of one end of the cellophane wrapper
• Pour the powder into their mouths,
• Blow the dust out of their mouths and nose

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Ohio has OD Epidemic

• Unintentional poisoning deaths- nearly all of
  them drug overdoses- eclipsed traffic fatalities
  both 2006 and 2007.
• Overdoses shot up 249 between 1999 and 2007.
• There is a direct relationship between increasing
  sales of prescription opiates and drug overdoses.

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Helping Parents Spot Warning Signs

• Parent training called What Your Kids Dont Want
  You to Know About Hidden in Plain Site walks
  parents through an exhibit of a teenagers
  bedroom that includes obvious and not-so-obvious
  indicators of high risk behavior.
• Room has such things as
• Empty cool whip bottles indicating possible
  bulimia-
• CD players that could serve as storage containers
  for drugs
• Apples that could easily be made into bongs

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100,000 Registered on Next-of-Kin Database

• Carmela Wiant and Linda Wuestenberg both learned
  of their sons car-crash deaths in a manner they
  call delayed, inappropriate and shocking
• Free next-of-kin database includes names, ages,
  and at least one family contact for
  law-enforcement use only
• The database provides law enforcement officers
  with information to locate the next-of-kin after
  an individual has been involved in an accident

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Fewer Adolescents Exposed to Drug Prevention
Messages

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
  Administration (SAMHSA) shows that fewer
  adolescents are being exposed to substance-use
  prevention messages or participating in
  out-of-school prevention programs
• However, more adolescent said they talked to at
  least one parent about alcohol and other drugs.
• Those who have conversations with their parents
  were significantly less likely to use alcohol,
  tobacco, or other drugs.

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• Join Together
• Mexican Drug Lord Makes Forbes Billionaire List
• French Look to Curb Youth Drinking in Response to
  Binge Drinking Spike
• Montana Legislators Approve Restrictions on
  Alcoholic Energy Drinks
• SAMHSA Says Fewer Adolescents Exposed to Drug
  Prevention Messages
• Adults Provide Free Alcohol to 40 percent of
  Underage Drinkers, SAMHSA Report Finds
• Middle Schoolers Smoke Smarties Candy
• CADCA
• April is Alcohol Awareness Month
• Coalition Uses Innovative Method to Help Parents
  Spot Warning Signs
• Columbus Dispatch
• 100,000 Registered on Next-of-Kin Database
• Ohio has OD Epidemic
• Other Sources
• National Survey, 2007
• Shelbys Rules (www.shelbysrules.com)
• Pictures
• Microsoft Clip Art
• http//www.forbes.com/lists/2009/10/billionaires-2
  009-richest-people_Joaquin-Guzman-Loera_FS0Y.html

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