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NATIONAL METHAMPHETAMINE TRAINING & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTER
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Latest news: 11-12-2010
The truth about drugs and teens
NC - Protecting teens from the ravages of drugs indisputably is important. Illicit drug use virtually is unmatched in its ability to decimate adolescent hopes and dreams. This is no late-breaking epiphany; for years, parents, educators, and the architects of anti-drug campaigns have enjoined kids to abstain from drug experimentation. Several years ago, anti-drug messages were resonating: By any indicator, teen drug use had dropped. But the tide is turning. Adolescent drug consumption is headed back up. Just-released government data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health show an overall uptick between 2008 and 2009 in the number of 12- to 17-year-olds consuming illicit drugs, with marijuana use on the rise, too. These results mirror findings from the Partnership for a Drug-Free America’s latest high school survey, revealing a spike in teens’ ecstasy and marijuana consumption, particularly among girls.
Meth use blamed for 80% of children removed from guardians
ID - There is a problem in the eastern Idaho region affecting newborns, mothers giving birth to children with drugs found in the baby’s system. And local doctors are dealing with cases on a daily bases. “It's very common. We see it all the time,” said Shannon Jenkins D.O., the Director of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center. Doctors at Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center's Newborn Intensive Care Unit treat these babies whom might have strokes, heart attacks or brain damage as a result of Meth being in their system. But some doctors want stricter laws to prevent these problems from occurring at all. “I really wish in Idaho they would enact laws to protect the fetuses at some point, so that if we can identify a mother who is taking illegal substances or methamphetamine, that we can actually do something about it to help prevent the problems that it causes,” said Jenkins.
Is there a meth lab in your neighborhood?
PA - Arrests for the manufacture of crystal methamphetamine in Lock Haven and Jersey Shore have been making recent headlines, but what does that really mean to those who live in the neighborhood? The Advocates for a Drug Free Tomorrow hope to help answer community questions and concerns with a presentation at the Central Mountain High School auditorium in Mill Hall on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. "Is There a Meth Lab Cookin' in Your Neighborhood?" will host Phil Cusano as its keynote speaker.
