Over the past five years, more than 7,500 children and youth have participated in the SPIRIT school-based substance abuse prevention program. Five school districts are currently being served: Carthage, Hickman Mills, Jennings, Knox and New Madrid school districts.
The program offers a variety of evidence-based prevention programs selected by the districts including PeaceBuilders, Positive Action, Life Skills Training, Reconnecting Youth, and Second Step. The evaluation was performed by the Missouri Institute of Mental Health (MIMH). This report provides fifth year outcomes of the main goals of the project.
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Millions of youths use cold meds to get high
Posted Friday, January 11, 2008, 9:09 am
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WASHINGTON - About 3.1 million people between the ages of 12 to 25 or about 5 percent of the age group have used over-the-counter cough and cold medicine to get high, a U.S. government survey found.
This type of abuse has been known for years, but the 2006 survey, conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration or SAMHSA, sets out the best numbers to date quantifying the problem, officials said.
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Full Story at MSNBC
SAMHSA News Release
Early Exposure to Movie Smoking Predicts Later Tobacco Use
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008, 9:18 am
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"Movies seen at the youngest ages" -- mostly rated "G," "PG," or PG-13" -- "had as much influence over later smoking behavior as the movies that children had seen recently," according to researcher Linda Titus-Ernstoff of Dartmouth Medical School, summarizing the findings of a new study.
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Join Together
American Journal of Pediatrics summary
Study Links Drinking With Sex
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 11:25 am
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Young adults who drink heavily are more likely than non-heavy drinkers to have multiple sex partners, studies have shown. Does the number of partners increase with the intensity of drinking? Does having a diagnosed conduct disorder affect that number?
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Full story at the WashingtonPost.com
Physician Screening for Alcohol Cost-Effective but Underutilized
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 11:17 am
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A 10-minute screening and talk with a doctor about problem drinking delivers almost as much bang for the buck to the health system as childhood immunization and advice about taking aspirin to prevent stroke and heart attack, according to a new systematic review but just 8.7 percent of problem drinkers report receiving such information.
Brief intervention for alcohol is in the top-five most cost-effective preventive services, according to the research coming in equal to or higher than many common screening services like Pap smears and bowel cancer screening.
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Join Together summary
Center for the Advancement of Health article
Blunt touts smoke free health plan
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2008, 11:06 am
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Gov. Blunt has proposed using a portion of the state's tobacco settlement to provide medication, counseling and doctors care to participants in MO HealthNet, the state's reconfigured Medicaid program.
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Full story in the Columbia Tribune
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