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Together for Youth E-Newsletter
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Harry Potter and the Pint of Liquid Courage
Hermione is tipsy. Neville is serving drinks. Ron is sipping mead and Harry is partying with his professors.
As Harry Potter fans crowd movie theaters to catch the latest installment in the blockbuster series, parents may be surprised by the starring role given to alcohol. In scene after scene, the young wizards and their adult professors are seen sipping, gulping and pouring various forms of alcohol to calm their nerves, fortify their courage or comfort their sorrows.
Does Hogwarts have a drinking problem?
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Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost Benefits Analysis
Looking to convince policymakers that they should fund your prevention program?
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has just released a new publication that can help you build a case for support.
Substance Abuse Prevention Dollars and Cents: A Cost Benefits Analysis "is designed to help policymakers and other stakeholders use the results of cost-benefit analysis as an information tool for decision making and for selecting the substance abuse prevention programs that best apply available resources toward addressing their needs," according to SAMHSA.
The report details the extent of substance abuse among youth, costs of substance abuse to the nation and to states, cost savings that could be gained if effective prevention policies, programs, and services were implemented nationwide, and programs and policies that are most cost beneficial.
The costs of untreated addiction also is examined, along with the anticipated return on investment in prevention programs. The report is available free online (PDF, 64 KB).
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A Lower Drinking Age?
SOME THINGS only seem like a good idea at 3 a.m. Increasingly, the Amethyst Letter, which more than 100 college presidents and chancellors signed last year to advocate rethinking the drinking age, looks like one of them. A study just published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry found that binge drinking has decreased nationwide with the increased drinking age -- everywhere but on college campuses.
READ MORE HERE!
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Anti-Drug Campaigns Shift Focus from Marijuana to Prescription Drugs
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Study: Scare Tactics Don't Reduce Alcohol Consumption of Youth
July 22, 2009
MILWAUKEE - Give college students a clue on how much their friends are really drinking, and those students will tend to drink less alcohol, according to a recent paper.
Scientist agree that scare tactics that highlight the harms of heavy drinking don't reduce alcohol consumption among youth.
Almost 30 years ago, health officials began using a novel method to combat alcohol abuse on campuses by informing instead of scaring. Students were made aware of how their drinking compares with others on campus in various ways.Read more here! |
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