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Posted: December 7th, 2011
The alcohol-impaired fatalities represented 32% of the total driving fatalities in 2009. That is a 7.4% decrease from 2008 but we still have a long way to go. The National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) has pulled together a comprehensive list of resources and publications including the Impaired Driving Special Feature. Posted: November 30th, 2011
WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — North Carolina ranks 21st in the nation in funding programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released today by a coalition of public health organizations. North Carolina currently spends $17.3 million a year on tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which is 16.2 percent of the $106.8 million recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Posted: November 30th, 2011
Medication Abuse Prevention:More than drug take backs and cabinet locksDecember 19th 1:30-2:30 Presenters: Melissa Heinen, Salus Consulting and Cindy Rodgers, Children’s Safety Network About the webinar series… We are excited to announce that the Children’s Safety Network (CSN) is establishing a new webinar series on Primary Prevention of Prescription Drug Abuse among teens and young adults. In the recent environmental scan conducted by CSN with maternal and child health (MCH), injury and violence prevention (IVP), and state substance abuse (SSA) program directors, the overwhelming majority of you indicated interest in learning more about and receiving technical assistance in this topic. Posted: November 28th, 2011
The Durham News | November 27, 2011 | thedurhamnews.com BY WANDA BOONE If you have teens, think back to when they were babies just starting to crawl. You created and monitored the environment to help ensure their safety, health and well being. Teens are not small adults. Their internal organs are not fully formed. The frontal lobes of their brains are still developing. Many times we scratch our heads and think, “It seems like they would know better than to …” But they don’t know better. They are children. Teens need our guidance, example, and protection. We have to monitor the environment and help ensure their safety, health and wellbeing. “Prescription drug abuse is a silent epidemic that is stealing thousands of lives and tearing apart communities and families across America,” Gil Kerlikowske, director of National Drug Control Policy, said in a CDC news release. “Parents and grandparents should properly dispose of any unneeded or expired medications from the home and to talk to their kids about the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs.”
Posted: November 27th, 2011
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The North Carolina Centers for Prevention Resources
Professional Development Webinar Training Series 2011
Facilitated by Marcus Bouligny, The Prospectus Group, LLC
About This Webinar…
The Centers for Prevention Resources have partnered with The Prospectus Group to provide a series of webinars that give a foundation for the Strategic Prevention Framework. Each online training will begin with a webinar with follow-up online engagement activities that will keep the dialogue going amongst the participants for approximately one (1) week. During this facilitated online forum participants will be asked to respond to questions about the content area.
This on-line session will be fully interactive with discussions and group work.
Last week a complicated, 60-page ballot initiative written by Costco and other special interests was adopted by voters, thanks mainly to a $22 million campaign funded, again, almost entirely by Costco. The measure was billed as a privatization effort which promised to “get government employees out of the business of selling alcohol” and increase the dollars for law enforcement. Understandably, this was attractive to voters given the $2 billion deficit looming over state government. However, buried in those 60 pages is a complete change in the State’s regulatory goals, elimination of many effective environmental strategies, changes to specific regulations Costco had challenged unsuccessfully in court, elimination of the three-tier system for wine and spirits, elimination of the product safety system for wine and spirits, a major increase in availability for alcohol, and many more changes to taxes, fees, advertising, training requirements, etc.
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Scholarship Opportunity
The scholarship application form for the 2012 Forum is now open. If you wish to apply, please click here. The scholarships are available to attend the conference and will cover lodging for four nights and the applicable registration fee. All applications must be submitted online and are due no later than Friday, November 11, 2011 and must be fully completed in order to be considered. For any questions, email forum@cadca.org.
| A collaboration with the Governor's Institute on Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Inc. Funded wholly or in part by the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant Fund (CFDA #93.959) as a project of the NC Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities & Substance Abuse Services. |
