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Illinois SADD Welcomes New Student Advisory Board
While most of their peers were still enjoying summer break, a group of high school students from around Illinois got together for the first time in early August as newly-selected members of the Illinois SADD Student Advisory Board (SAB). The SAB is designed to help improve Illinois SADD and represent Illinois' SADD students.
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The Prevention First Virtual Clearinghouse
The Prevention First Virtual Clearinghouse provides links to items that could be helpful in your prevention strategies. Items can be downloaded, and in some instances ordered for little/no cost. Webinars, infographics, kits, and brochures can all be found here. With topics such as underage drinking, heroin, marijuana, help for parents/caregivers, treatment, suicide/suicide prevention, and recovery, we hope that people of many backgrounds, ages, and circumstances will benefit from these resources.
Please keep in mind the topics shown are in no way an all-inclusive list. There will be new topics added, topics will be modified, topics might even become irrelevant.
 If you have a go-to resource that you would like to see added to the Clearinghouse, please contact Ruthie Gergeni.
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Upcoming Awareness Activities
National Substance Abuse Awareness Month
In 2011, President Obama issued the first-ever Presidential Proclamation designating October as National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. The tradition continues in 2016 as parents, youth, schools, and community leaders across the country join this month-long observance of the role substance use prevention plays in promoting safe and healthy communities. This 2015 ONDCP brochure provides information and ideas for easy-to-plan events for the month of October.
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
CADCA urges coalitions to help raise awareness about the dangers of prescription and over-the-counter medicine abuse by taking part in NMAAM. The campaign serves an ideal launching pad for medicine abuse prevention efforts.
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Six of the Most Dangerous Drug and Alcohol Cocktails
More than half of American adults have had alcohol in the past month, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. But how many of them paused to think about the medications or drugs they had taken and wondered what it could do to their bodies? Despite warning labels on prescription pill bottles and doctors' warnings, alcohol and drug cocktails take millions of lives every year in the United States.
But not everyone is at fault. Some take a sip of their wine or beer without knowing the risk while the drugs perform an often unpredictable chemistry experiment inside their bodies.
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Increased Risk of Suicide Attempts in Teens Linked to Abuse of Rx Drugs
A new study finds an increased risk of suicide attempts in teens is associated with prescription drug abuse, Reuters reports. Teens who said they used prescription drugs for non-medical purposes at the start of the study were almost three times as likely to report a suicide attempt a year later.
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College Students More Likely to Drink Than Their Peers Who Aren't in School
U.S. college students are more likely to drink and less likely to smoke than their peers who aren't enrolled in school, a new survey finds. College students are also more likely to binge drink than 18- to 22-year-olds who are not in college.
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