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Mendocino Students Create Campaign to Educate Peers on Drug and Alcohol Abuse

Ukiah Daily Journal. June 17, 2011. Carole Brodsky.

How do advertisers gather information about their market, and can these same techniques be utilized to encourage positive behaviors?

Through a federal Drug—Free Communities Grant awarded by the Substance Abuse Mental Health Service Administration, students and staff of the Arbor on Main, in coordination with the county’s Health and Human Services Administration, addressed these issues. They created and implemented a social norms experiment which resulted in a novel media campaign focusing on youth drug and alcohol use. The project was part of the Rural Murals program.

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Sheriff’s Budget Situation Improves

The Ukiah Daily Journal. June 21, 2011. Tiffany Revelle.

Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman reported Tuesday that he has a workable budget for the first time in six years.

Allman’s $19.5 million piece of the county's general fund for the 2011—12 county budget is almost $1 million more than CEO Carmel Angelo’s originally recommended allocation, coming within $1.4 million of what he said his department needs to meet operating costs.

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Victory on Stopping Bus Bench Alcohol Ads

MarinInstitute.org. June 10, 2011.

LOS ANGELES, CA — The Coalition to Ban Alcohol Ads from Public Property organized a lively grassroots rally in Los Angeles City Hall Plaza this morning to send a message to the L.A. Board of Public Works that promoting alcohol on city—owned bus benches was a really bad idea. The Board heard the concerns and agreed by asking for a full ban on all alcohol ads in the new contract. The contractor, Martin Outdoor Media, LLC quickly agreed. There will be no alcohol ads on 6,000 L.A. city—owned bus benches. This will reduce youth exposure to messages that are feeding an epidemic of underage alcohol consumption and harm.

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National Survey Reveals Increases in Substance Use From 2008 to 2009

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

This report presents the first information from the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), an annual survey sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The survey is the primary source of information on the use of illicit drugs, alcohol, and tobacco in the civilian, noninstitutionalized population of the United States aged 12 years old or older. The survey interviews approximately 67,500 persons each year. Unless otherwise noted, all comparisons in this report described using terms such as “increased,” “decreased,” or “more than" are statistically significant at the .05 level.

Read the full report on the website for the Office of Applied Studies.

A Dutch City Seeks to End Drug Tourism

The New York Times. August 17, 2010. Suzanne Daley.

MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — On a recent summer night, Marc Josemans’s Easy Going Coffee Shop was packed. The lines to buy marijuana and hashish stretched to the reception area where customers waited behind glass barriers.

Most were young. Few were Dutch.

Thousands of “drug tourists” sweep into this small, picturesque city in the southeastern part of the Netherlands every day — as many as two million a year, city officials say. Their sole purpose is to visit the city’s 13 “coffee shops,” where they can buy varieties of marijuana with names like Big Bud, Amnesia and Gold Palm without fear of prosecution.

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Californians must look at science of marijuana

SFGate.com. August 22, 2010. Timmen Cermak.

Like so many political debates in our society, the argument over Proposition 19, the initiative to legalize marijuana in California, is portrayed as good vs. evil, black vs. white, us vs. them — while nobody is looking objectively at the medical science of marijuana. If research does enter the debate, each side touts the scientific bits that bolster its arguments and then ignores the rest.

The California Society of Addiction Medicine is in a unique position: We take no position on Prop. 19, but we wish Californians would look at the research before they make up their minds on how to vote.

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Racked by drug violence, Mexico wary of Calif. vote on legalizing marijuana

The Washington Post. September 10, 2010. Nick Miroff and William Booth.

TIJUANA, MEXICO &mdashp; To embattled authorities here, where heavily armed soldiers patrol the streets and more than 500 people have been killed this year, marijuana is a poisonous weed that enriches death-dealing cartel bosses who earn huge profits smuggling the product north.

“Marijuana arrives in the United States soaked with the blood of Tijuana residents,” said Mayor Jorge Ramos, whose police department has lost 45 officers to drug violence in the past three years.

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Did you know? 8 out of 10 AV High School Students have eaten fruit during the past 24 hours.*
*from AVHS California Healthy Kids Survey 2010