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Important Note:  The Substance Abuse Ministry Training conference originally scheduled for Friday, May 1 has been rescheduled for the fall.  We will announce a new date for the conference in the next month.

When parents in your community think about safeguarding their teens from drugs, they usually think of illicit street drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.  But today teens are abusing prescription drugs more than any illicit drug except marijuana.

The statistics on prescription drug abuse are startling: every day, more than 2,000 kids age 12 to 17 try a painkiller non-medically for the first time**, and 71 percent of persons age 12 and older who abuse these drugs say they get them from a relative or friend.  Perhaps most troubling is that many teens don’t realize these drugs can be just as dangerous as street drugs, so kids who would never try street drugs might feel safe abusing prescription drugs.  

Since the problem of prescription drug abuse is predominantly one of access and awareness, Family Circle magazine and the Media Campaign have joined forces to highlight the danger zones in each room of the home, producing a printed "house tour" that will run in the magazine’s June issue (on newsstands May 12).  Additional copies of this new resource – a supplement to the popular online version that can be found by visiting www.TheAntiDrug.com/dangerzones (Information from The Anti Drug Media campaign).

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