Alcohol companies employ many tactics to keep drinking and alcohol use in everybody’s minds. Some of them might surprise you.
A California family lost their 13-year-old daughter to huffing — unfortunately, this scenario is not as uncommon as you may think. Huffing is the act of sniffing chemicals (often sprayed into a bag) and inhaled. This may cause a reaction is similar to alcohol intoxication — drowsiness, lightheadedness, and a lack of inhibition.
Volunteer with Straight Up! Straight Up volunteers (from left): Raquel, Laura, Natalie, Matthew and Ryan. We’re looking for Ventura County residents ages 12-25 to get involved, in creative and interesting ways, to raise awareness about alcohol/drug use and other destructive behaviors that are dangers to young people.
Images of young people using smokeless tobacco products. Creative Commons license. While teenagers across the nation have heard and embraced the “no smoking” message – smoking among teens has fallen more than 45 percent since 1997 – they don’t seem to equate the dangers of nicotine and other toxins with smokeless tobacco. About 20 percent [...]
Straight Up was honored to be included in two recent health and safety events on Ventura County campuses. We provided information to students about the issues of alcohol, drug use and more.
A promising study shows the effectiveness of community-based, substance abuse prevention interventions begun during middle school years. Middle school students from small towns and rural communities who received any of three community-based prevention programs were less likely to abuse prescription medications in late adolescence and young adulthood. The research, published today in the American Journal of [...]
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Many thanks to the Thousand Oaks Acorn for writing this article about our recent Reality Parties for Parents. Drugs. Sex. Booze. They’re all commonplace at your average high school “rager,” say members of Straight Up Ventura County. Immaturity, risk-taking and excessiveness have long been a part of the teenage party scene, but do parents really [...]
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) launched its redesigned NIDA for Teens Web site just in time for National Drug Facts Week, in January 2013. The new site features: Access to teen drug abuse information from anywhere through your tablet or mobile device New science-based information on emerging drugs, such as bath salts and K2/Spice [...]
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From our colleagues and collaborators at Project SAFER. Drinking at college has become ritualized in American culture, and “more than 80 percent of college students drink alcohol” as part of their higher-education experience (NIAAA). Not only can students suffer injury due to assault, sexual abuse and drunk driving crashes as a result of their drinking, [...]
