1.
CADCA ANNOUNCES WORKPLACE INITIATIVE WINNERS
CADCA congratulates the winners of the Best
Workplace Initiative Contest!
The first place winner of the Best Workplace Initiative contest is the
Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston. The coalition is recognized for
its key role in obtaining corporate representation and support from
the business community in a CEO roundtable and for convincing the state
agency to make workplace prevention training part of the curriculum
at its annual training institute. The coalition will receive $500 and
a one-year CADCA membership.
Our second and third place winners, Salem-Keizer Together (OR) and Coalition
for a Drug Free Greater Cincinnati (OH), will both receive $200. Salem-Keizer
Together launched a drug free workplace program that provided tool kits
for businesses to establish a comprehensive workplace initiative. The
Coalition for a Drug-Free Greater Cincinnati offered "Parenting
for Prevention" training to local business employees during lunch
hour and produced the first drug-free workplace consortium for small
businesses in the state.
The winners of CADCA's Best Workplace Initiative Contest completed a
short workplace survey and responded with the most effective and successful
workplace program initiatives.
2.
ANTI-DRUG PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE ONLINE EN ESPANOL
CADCA has select anti-drug information available
in Spanish. The information includes Strategizer publications as well
as contact information for members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Visit www.cadca.org/Publications/OnlinePublications/CADCAenEspanol/CADCAenEspanol.htm
The Office of National Drug Control Policy offers a database
that provides a listing of publications and other anti-drug documents
in Spanish from various agencies and organizations. To view and download
theses publications visit www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/publications/asp/topics.asp?topic=All%20Topics&language=All
Another resource for anti-drug information in Spanish
is La Antidroga, www.laantidroga.com.
The site offers expert advice on how to handle youth drug use and an
interactive feature where parents can submit questions to a drug-prevention
expert and have them answered online.
3.
NEW NIAAA ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR NAMED
Mark S. Goldman, Ph.D., has joined the National Institute on Alcohol
Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) as an Associate Director. Dr. Goldman has
a major research interest in the development of drinking and risk for
drinking in children, adolescents, and young adults, and has published
widely in this area.
Dr. Goldman served from 1985 to 2003 at the University of South Florida
as Distinguished Research Professor and Director of the Alcohol and
Substance Abuse Research Institute. His career includes a number of
prominent positions, including Psychology Field Editor for the Journal
of Studies on Alcohol, chairmanship of numerous NIAAA committees, and
President of the American Psychological Association (APA) Division on
Addictions. He received a MERIT Award from the NIAAA in 1992 in recognition
of his research contributions. To learn more, visit NIAAA at www.niaaa.nih.gov/press/2003/Goldman.htm
4. TEENS WHO SEE AND HEAR ANTI-DRUG ADS ARE LESS LIKELY TO USE DRUGS
RoperASW released study results that show teens who get a "daily
dose" of anti-drug ads have stronger anti-drug attitudes and are
also up to 38 percent less likely to use drugs. The study also found
teens who see or hear anti-drug ads "every day or more" have
significantly stronger anti-drug attitudes than teens that see or hear
those ads less than once a week.
RoperASW gathers and analyzes data for an annual tracking
study for the Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS). The data reported
are part of the Partnership Attitude Tracking Study. The Partnership
for a Drug Free America uses the study, and its nationally projectable
data, to inform the strategic direction of its national advertising
campaigns.
For more information on the study, visit www.roperasw.com/newsroom/press/p0306001.html
5.
STUDY INDICATES HEROIN ADDICTS ARE MORE LIKELY TO INHALE THE DRUG
According to data from the national Treatment
Episode Data Set (TEDS), heroin users admitted to treatment are more
likely to use the inhalant form of the drug. The percentage of heroin
users admitted to treatment reporting inhalation has gradually increased
from 20 percent in 1992 to 30 percent in 2000. At the same time, those
who report injecting the drug has slowly decreased from 77 percent in
1992 to 65 percent in 2000. These trends are likely caused by fear of
contracting infectious diseases from contaminated needles and the increased
purity of available heroin that enables people to get an effective high
from inhaling the drug.
The Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) is a compilation
of data on the demographic and substance abuse characteristics of admissions
to substance abuse treatment. Information on treatment admissions are
routinely collected by State administrative systems and then submitted
to SAMHSA. This data can be found online at www.dasis.samhsa.gov/teds00/TEDS_2k_index.htm.
6.
CAMY RELEASES "EXPOSURE OF AFRICAN AMERICAN YOUTH TO ALCOHOL ADVERTISING"
REPORT
African American youth in the U.S. are more likely to suffer more from
alcohol-related diseases than other groups in the population although
African-American youth drink less than other youth, according to a new
report from the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth (CAMY).
In auditing the exposure of African American youth to alcohol advertising
in magazines, on radio and television in 2002, the Center found that
alcohol is the drug most widely used by African-American youth; African-American
youth saw more alcohol advertising in national magazines than did non-African
American youth; heard more advertising for beer and distilled spirits
on the radio than non-African American youth; and alcohol advertisers
spent $11.7 million to place ads on all 15 of the programs most popular
with African-American youth, including Bernie Mac, The Simpsons, King
of the Hill, My Wife and Kids and The Wonderful World of Disney.
For more information on CAMY and full text of this study, visit http://camy.org/research/afam0603/.
7.
UM STUDY SAYS RITALIN USE MAY WORSEN COCAINE ABUSE
Evidence suggests people who use cocaine regularly may have a harder
time breaking the habit if they used Ritalin or the club drug Ecstasy
in their youth, according to a new University
of Miami study.
The study, conducted on laboratory mice, found that rodents given Ritalin
and Ecstasy, then later cocaine, showed higher sensitivity to cocaine
than those that hadn't been exposed to the first two stimulants.
Researchers are unclear why the use of these drugs appears to produce
long-term changes in the brain. Researchers believe these results might
also apply to other psycho-stimulants, such as amphetamines.
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