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Alcohol Research "Reducing Underage Drinking - A Collective Responsibility" READ IT ONLINE |
| Respect Yourself! You' are amazingly created and your body is your personal life vestle. Take care of yourself - you are the most important person you have! You make decisions that effect your body's health and your life! Don't let other people influence you in negative ways. Take a good look in the mirror and love the person you are! We do not have to be like every one else. Focus on your talents, desires, passions and your future. Your family and friends are the most important people you will ever have. Be proud of who you are and look to those who love you and treat you with love and respect. . Parents Beware! Reseach reveals: ~ The younger our youth begin to drink Alcohol, the greater the chances are that they will have an Alcohol problem later. . ~ The underage drinking law has helped to reduce Alcohol related deaths among youth. It is illegal for anyone under age 21 to possess alcohol. The Law supports our youth in keeping them safe from injury, permanent injury, and death due to Alcohol and youth drinking. . ~ Recent Research through brain imaging reviels that youth's brains are still developing throughout ages of early 20's and that Alcohol can interfere with healthy brain development. . ~ Parents are youths greatest influence. There is a lot that we can do to keep our youth safe from the morbid effects of Alcohol. Take greater responsibility and intervene in your child's life by acting as a role model, a guide and a monotor during their years of underage alcohol drinking. Read more about your role and what you can do in preventing underage drinking from the following link. |
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| Preventing Drug Use Amoung Children & Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide provides a science-based conceptual models and research-supported information to enable the development and implementation of effective drug abuse prevention programs (National Institutes on Drug Abuse) pdf. 49 pages. |
| 2urHealth copy right 2000 "Take charge of your health and enhance your life"! |
| Alcohol Policies in The United States: Highlights from the 50 States States provides statistical information on selected National alcohol policies, as well as the status of individual State policies as of January 1, 2000. (Alcohol Epidemiology Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation) pdf. 89-pages. |
| Community How To Guides on Underaged Drinking Prevention advise local issues, includding: coalition building, needs assessment/strategic planning, enforcement, prevention/education, public policy, media relations, evaluations, and self-sufficiency. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Governors Highway Safety Association). |
| Keep Kids Alcohol Free: Strategies for Action describes the public and private application of three science-based prevention models. Informative online "e-sources" that highlight prevention strategies in action are also included. (The Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free initiative) |
| Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws: A Compendium of Resources is a compilation of resources designed to assist States and local communities in the enforcement of underage drinking laws. (Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention) |
| Prevention: What's Science Got To Do With It? Describes seven key researched-based, substance abuse prevention strategies (Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Northeast Center for the Applicayion of Prevention Technology). pdf. 24 pages |
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| This website is created & maintained by Kimberly R. Garnett BS, CHES Public Health Educator last updated April 2005 |
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| Alcohol News * Join Together Online * NIDA NOTES * Alcohol Alert * Alcohol Research & Health * NIAAA News Release * Prevline Newsroom * SAMHASA News Release * RAND Drug Policy Research |
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| Evidence-based Principals for Substance Abuse Prevention presents science-based, field-tested guidelines upon which prevention programs can be based. Available in English & Spanish. (Office of National Drug Control Strategy) |
| Safe Lanes On Campus: A Guide For Preventing Impaired Driving and Underage Drinking (Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention |
| Communnity Mobilizing for Change on Alcoholi (CMCA) s a community organizing effort designed to change policy and practices of major community institutions in ways that reduce access of alcohol to teenages. |
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| Alcohol isn't for everyone After all - it is a poson and must be savored in very small increments! If you decide to over indulge in an alcoholic beverage you will be representing the "Drinking for Dummies" crowd Alcohol Facts ~ Alcohol is a central nervous system depressant ~ Alcohol slows your heart rate, respirations, reflexes, and alters brain chemistry Youth are at risk ~ because their brains are still developing. ~Youth tend to act impulsively . ~Youth lack experience with drinking, with driving a car, with life skills and making decisions. Alcohol lowers your judgement, caution and reasoning abilities ~ you may do something that you normally do not ! Alcohol is a Poison ~ when consummed in large quantities can cause permanant damage, injury and death. ~ You could choke on your vomit or stop breathing. Alcohol Interferes with medications ~ it can render some needed medications useless. ~ It can casue a synergistic effect when taken with others. This means that the intended outcome can be exagerated and be harmful to your health. Regular acohol consumption can change your body's tolerance and can leed to alcoholism - a degenerative and progressive disease. Learn How Alcohol Effects Your Brain! ~ Even though the legal driving limit is .08 BAC in most states, You are impaired at one drink and specific functions will not be noticed until you need to use them! |
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| Celebrate your life & your happiness by engaging in activities that foster a sence of purpose, belonging and camaraderie. Seek out activities that fullfill your life passions. Whether it is one of a million like sports, arts, music, writing, theater, crafts, designing, building, engineering, science, biology and nature, there are many to love and share! |
| "Alcohol began to erode our digestive system and we decided to drink sparkling grape juice - we have developed a higher sence of imagination and creativity and the camaraderie is just plain crazy around here"! |
| How Prune Juice Kept me Going |
| Making Curly Ribbons Improved My Arthritis! |
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