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SUFFOLK COALITION
TO PREVENT ALCOHOL AND DRUG DEPENDENCIES, INC.
Proudly Announces a Grant Award
From
LONG ISLAND UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FUND
In The
LONG ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
This funding will support an initiative to implement
Restorative Justice practices within the
juvenile justice and criminal justice systems
of Suffolk County
Katherine Hoak, Advisory Board Member, Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund, (left) with Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc., at a grantee award luncheon at the offices of Long Island Community Foundation, Syosset, NY.
A Dose of Prevention:
Stopping Cough Medicine and
Prescription Drug Abuse Before It Starts
General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of CADCA; Legislator Lynne C. Nowick, 13th Suffolk County Legislative District; Commissioner Humayun J. Chaudhry, Suffolk County Department of Health Services; Barbara Keller, Executive Director, Suffolk Coalition to Prevent Alcohol and Drug Dependencies, Inc.; Jack Jerdan, Executive Director, Long Island Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence, Inc.
A Town Hall Meeting was held on August 20, 2007, commemorating August as "Medicine Abuse Awareness Month."
The purpose of this Town Hall Meeting was to mobilize the community and educate parents on the recent trend of over-the-counter (OTC) cough medicine abuse among teens. It is part of a national initiative to combat OTC cough medicine abuse sponsored by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA).
Suffolk County has been selected to hold this Town Hall Meeting due to Resolution No. 1514-2007, proposed by Legislator Lynne C. Nowick and recently passed in the Suffolk County Legislature, related to the sale of cough medicine containing dextromethorphan (DXM) to minors.
General Arthur T. Dean, Chairman and CEO of CADCA,
was in attendance.
For more information on this important issue
please contact us at (631) 366-1717
Did you know....?
If a typical 160-pound male drinks 5 standard drinks over a 2-hour period, he would reach a BAC of .08, making him legally intoxicated in all 50 states and DC. Source: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov
Almost half of the approximately 2,200 persons who die annually in traffic crashes involving drinking drivers under 21 are persons other than the drinking driver. Source: Hingson & Winter, 2003
NEW USE FOR IPODS
Those with a few pints under their belts on a Friday night can now gauge how much liquor they've consumed by using their iPod.
David Steele Enterprises is selling the iBreath – an alcohol breathalyser, which also has a wireless transmitter to send your tunes on to any FM radio.
To make use of the breathalyser, a user needs to fold out the "blow wand" and exhale into it for five seconds and the iBreath works out your level of alcohol consumption.
It comes in black or white and costs $79. ®
METHAMPHETAMINE ALERT
One of our nation's most serious drug threats!
Obtain vital information and articles as well as a CD copy of the Meth Education Tool Kit on www.methresources.org
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