Emily Hamer's List: Awareness (Parent/student)

• Sixty-Two Percent of Teens Who Reported Alcohol Use Had First Drink by Age 15
• trend that has emerged among American teens since 2008
• parents feel unable to respond to the negative shifts in teen drug and alcohol use.

  • parents don't know how to respond. Parent awareness could be a solution.
• 67 percent increase in the number of teens who reported using Ecstasy in the past year
• Normalized:
• alcohol

  • Could broaden topic to also include alcohol?
• a heavier burden is placed squarely on the shoulders of parents – who need to take an active role in preventing substance abuse in their families,
• Steve Pasierb, President and CEO of The Partnership at Drugfree.org.
• upport for drug education and prevention programs has been cut drastically due to budgetary pressures.”

  • Drug prevention programs are being cut in other schools (officer hendricksen also said this). Ours hasn't cut D.A.R.E yet, but when will they find it an unnecessary expense?
• • Statistics about why teens drink alcohol. 
• call to action for parents,

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• • Discuss how abuse of over the counter drugs is an issue that the community could work to solve together.

  • LAST 2 PAR
• • discuss the different types of drugs that can be abused and how the combination of different legal drugs can be just as devastating as "illegal" drugs such as heroin.

  • PAR 4+5
• • Discuss how a physician in collaboration with parents could be very helpful.

  • Discuss the various ways of intervetion.
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  • • PAR 6+7+8
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  • Main source is from family
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  • • Important that it's increasing.

    • again stresses importance of parents.
• • Teen abuse drugs found in their homes. They combine prescription and over the counter drugs. These combinations are called "cocktails" and can have serious medical complications because of the interactions between the drugs.

  • PAR 3:

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• Denise Konkol
• daughter Holly died two days after her 21st birthday.
• We couldn't stop it,
• Muskego Police Department Detective Shawn Diedrich and Community Resource Officer Ann Shaw
• rising drug use throughout Waukesha County.
• 323 defendents, netting 493 grams of cocaine, 11 grams of crack, 928 Oxycodone pills, 50,600 pounds of marijuana and 833 grams of heroin.
• he last statistic for heroin reflects a sharp increase from just 24 grams in 2011, and 20 in 2010.
• "If you don't think Muskego has a heroin problem, think again,"
• Diedrich
• Diedrich
• Shaw s
• 33 reported overdoses, 20 of them to heroin, with 11 fatalities
• 2012 drug-related crime has included 106 thefts, 71 retail thefts, 60 burglaries, 127 arrests for possession of drugs or paraphernalia and 75 underage drinking citations.
• • What parents should look for
• • Lying, stealing
   
  • Poor hygiene, or bad odor
• • Mood swings or changes in friends
   
  • Missing items from the home, especially spoons (used as paraphernalia)
• rehab facility in Oshkosh called NOVA

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