May 17, 2010
May 12, 2010
Take Care WV: Don't Share RX Drugs
Everyone knows drugs are dangerous. But did you know that sharing prescription drugs can be just as dangerous and deadly too? Sharing prescription drugs is also illegal.
Data indicates social access (sharing) is a major contributor to the misuse of prescription drugs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, most prescription drug abusers obtain their drugs from family and friends. In WV, 64% of non-medical users of pain relievers reported getting the most recently used drug from a friend or relative for free, and another 7.6% reported buying them from a friend or relative.
Please don't share prescription drugs. Only take prescriptions as advised by your doctor.
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The WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being and the WV Prevention Resource Center are launching Take Care WV – a social marketing campaign to spread the word that sharing prescription drugs is illegal, and it can be just as dangerous and deadly as illicit drugs.
How can you help support this campaign and reduce the misuse of prescription drugs in our state?
-Please visit www.takecarewv.org to view/listen to campaign messages, read facts and statistics about RX drug misuse/abuse, and learn about proper RX storage and disposal.
-Participate in your county’s discussions about RX abuse. Community Forums/Discussions on RX abuse are being scheduled across the state this summer. Dates will soon be posted on the WV Prevention Training & Events Calendar available at www.PrevNET.org. Contact information for your County Prevention Partnership is available at PrevNet as well as www.takecarewv.org.
-Encourage your local coalitions/media/businesses/schools/civic groups to air/print the PSAs as much as possible. All the PSAs can be downloaded at www.takecarewv.org.
Some specific ideas for distributing the campaign messages include:
-Email/talk to all your professional and personal contacts about this campaign. Feel free to forward this message as is, but also consider adding your own personal touch.
-Print some of the PSAs as flyers and distribute/post them in your community. Ask your doctor, dentist, child care provider, church, employer, etc. to post flyers in their waiting areas, exam rooms, lunch rooms or bathrooms.
-Facebook/Twitter the following message: Take Care WV: Please don’t share prescription drugs. Learn more at www.takecarewv.org
-Include the print PSAs in newsletters, church bulletins, meeting packets, mailings, etc.
-Talk to your local pharmacist about the campaign. Ask if they’ll post some of the flyers, and tell them later this summer we plan to have RX bags (with the campaign logo/message) for all WV pharmacies to use for a limited time. We’re working on corporate permission for the chains right now. MORE ON THIS COMING SOON
Thanks in advance for your support of Take Care WV.
Data indicates social access (sharing) is a major contributor to the misuse of prescription drugs. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, most prescription drug abusers obtain their drugs from family and friends. In WV, 64% of non-medical users of pain relievers reported getting the most recently used drug from a friend or relative for free, and another 7.6% reported buying them from a friend or relative.
Please don't share prescription drugs. Only take prescriptions as advised by your doctor.
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The WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being and the WV Prevention Resource Center are launching Take Care WV – a social marketing campaign to spread the word that sharing prescription drugs is illegal, and it can be just as dangerous and deadly as illicit drugs.
How can you help support this campaign and reduce the misuse of prescription drugs in our state?
-Please visit www.takecarewv.org to view/listen to campaign messages, read facts and statistics about RX drug misuse/abuse, and learn about proper RX storage and disposal.
-Participate in your county’s discussions about RX abuse. Community Forums/Discussions on RX abuse are being scheduled across the state this summer. Dates will soon be posted on the WV Prevention Training & Events Calendar available at www.PrevNET.org. Contact information for your County Prevention Partnership is available at PrevNet as well as www.takecarewv.org.
-Encourage your local coalitions/media/businesses/schools/civic groups to air/print the PSAs as much as possible. All the PSAs can be downloaded at www.takecarewv.org.
Some specific ideas for distributing the campaign messages include:
-Email/talk to all your professional and personal contacts about this campaign. Feel free to forward this message as is, but also consider adding your own personal touch.
-Print some of the PSAs as flyers and distribute/post them in your community. Ask your doctor, dentist, child care provider, church, employer, etc. to post flyers in their waiting areas, exam rooms, lunch rooms or bathrooms.
-Facebook/Twitter the following message: Take Care WV: Please don’t share prescription drugs. Learn more at www.takecarewv.org
-Include the print PSAs in newsletters, church bulletins, meeting packets, mailings, etc.
-Talk to your local pharmacist about the campaign. Ask if they’ll post some of the flyers, and tell them later this summer we plan to have RX bags (with the campaign logo/message) for all WV pharmacies to use for a limited time. We’re working on corporate permission for the chains right now. MORE ON THIS COMING SOON
Thanks in advance for your support of Take Care WV.
May 10, 2010
May Health Observances
•American Stroke Month
•Better Hearing and Speech Month
•Clean Air Month
RESOURCE: WV Clean Indoor Air Program
•Healthy Vision Month
•Hepatitis Awareness Month
•Lupus Awareness Month
•Lyme Disease Awareness Month
•Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Comprehensive Cancer Program
•Mental Health Month
RESOURCE: WV Mental Health Consumers’ Association
•National Arthritis Awareness Month & National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Osteoporosis & Arthritis Program
•National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Asthma Education and Prevention Program
•National Foster Care Month
RESOURCE: Mission WV Frameworks
•National High Blood Pressure Education Month
•National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
•National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
•National Alcohol- and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week (May 9 – 15) RESOURCE: WV March of Dimes
•National Women's Check-up Day (May 10)
•HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (May 18)
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: HIV/AIDS & STD Program
•World No Tobacco Day (May 31)
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Division of Tobacco Prevention
SOURCE/ADDITIONAL INFO: National Health Information Center
•Better Hearing and Speech Month
•Clean Air Month
RESOURCE: WV Clean Indoor Air Program
•Healthy Vision Month
•Hepatitis Awareness Month
•Lupus Awareness Month
•Lyme Disease Awareness Month
•Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection and Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Comprehensive Cancer Program
•Mental Health Month
RESOURCE: WV Mental Health Consumers’ Association
•National Arthritis Awareness Month & National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Osteoporosis & Arthritis Program
•National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Asthma Education and Prevention Program
•National Foster Care Month
RESOURCE: Mission WV Frameworks
•National High Blood Pressure Education Month
•National Physical Fitness and Sports Month
•National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Month
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative
•National Alcohol- and Other Drug-Related Birth Defects Week (May 9 – 15) RESOURCE: WV March of Dimes
•National Women's Check-up Day (May 10)
•HIV Vaccine Awareness Day (May 18)
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: HIV/AIDS & STD Program
•World No Tobacco Day (May 31)
RESOURCE: WV DHHR: Division of Tobacco Prevention
SOURCE/ADDITIONAL INFO: National Health Information Center
Apr 23, 2010
Currently On Prevention WV: Foster Care in WV
Nearly half a million children are in foster care in the United States. May is National Foster Care Month. On the current edition of Prevention WV, guests Carrie Robey (Mission WV) and Nate Emch (Adoptive and Foster Parent in Charleston) discuss foster care in West Virginia. Additional information about the Prevention WV television show, including show times and channels, is available at PrevNET.org.
Apr 20, 2010
Substance Abuse Costs WV’s Education System More Than $13 Million
More than $13 million of West Virginia’s education system budget was consumed to provide drug and alcohol related prevention and treatment services in 2009, according to a new report released this month by the WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being and the WV Prevention Resource Center.
“The Financial Burden of Substance Abuse in West Virginia: The Education System” examines the impact of drug and alcohol use on West Virginia’s education system including elementary, secondary and institutions of higher learning. It is the third in a series of reports examining the cost of drug and alcohol use in WV. A comprehensive report, incorporating estimates from criminal justice, health care, education, child welfare, and workforce systems, will be produced at the end of the project, and all reports will be updated annually. The reports are part of a larger Family Funding Study project, which is funded with U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Block Grant money administered by the WV Division of Criminal Justice (DCJS).
“Substance abuse issues, unfortunately, are a challenge to learning environments,” said Don Chapman, Assistant Director of the WV Department of Education’s Office of Healthy Schools and member of the WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being. “In addition to educating our state’s children, we must keep them safe and healthy.”
The WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being, created by Executive Order 8-04, is WV’s Governor-appointed substance abuse prevention and early intervention planning body. The Governor and the WV Partnership released a comprehensive, strategic plan for addressing substance abuse at a drug summit this past November. This latest funding study report was produced the WV Prevention Resource Center, which staffs the WV Partnership and provides support for WV’s community prevention efforts. The WVPRC is an affiliate of Marshall University and funded through various grants including a federal Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Block Grant administered through the WV DHHR's Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities and a federal Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant and the Governor’s Drug Free WV Grants administered through the WV Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Additional information about the WV Partnership, the WVPRC, and the Funding Study project is available at www.PrevNET.org.
“The Financial Burden of Substance Abuse in West Virginia: The Education System” examines the impact of drug and alcohol use on West Virginia’s education system including elementary, secondary and institutions of higher learning. It is the third in a series of reports examining the cost of drug and alcohol use in WV. A comprehensive report, incorporating estimates from criminal justice, health care, education, child welfare, and workforce systems, will be produced at the end of the project, and all reports will be updated annually. The reports are part of a larger Family Funding Study project, which is funded with U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Block Grant money administered by the WV Division of Criminal Justice (DCJS).
“Substance abuse issues, unfortunately, are a challenge to learning environments,” said Don Chapman, Assistant Director of the WV Department of Education’s Office of Healthy Schools and member of the WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being. “In addition to educating our state’s children, we must keep them safe and healthy.”
The WV Partnership to Promote Community Well-Being, created by Executive Order 8-04, is WV’s Governor-appointed substance abuse prevention and early intervention planning body. The Governor and the WV Partnership released a comprehensive, strategic plan for addressing substance abuse at a drug summit this past November. This latest funding study report was produced the WV Prevention Resource Center, which staffs the WV Partnership and provides support for WV’s community prevention efforts. The WVPRC is an affiliate of Marshall University and funded through various grants including a federal Substance Abuse Prevention & Treatment Block Grant administered through the WV DHHR's Bureau for Behavioral Health and Health Facilities and a federal Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant and the Governor’s Drug Free WV Grants administered through the WV Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Additional information about the WV Partnership, the WVPRC, and the Funding Study project is available at www.PrevNET.org.
Apr 1, 2010
April Health Observances
According to the National Health Information Center, April 2010 is:
•Alcohol Awareness Month
•Foot Health Awareness Month
•Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
•National Autism Awareness Month
WV RESOURCE: Autism Training Center
•National Cancer Control Month
WV RESOURCE: WV Comprehensive Cancer Program
•National Child Abuse Prevention Month
WV RESOURCE: WVDHHR; Prevent Child Abuse WV
•National Donate Life Month
•National Facial Protection Month
•National Minority Health Awareness Month
•National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
•National Youth Sports Safety Month
•Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
WV RESOURCE: WV Foundation for Rape Information and Service
•Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action (April 8)
•Sports Eye Safety Month
•Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month
•National Public Health Week (April 5-11)
•World Health Day (April 7)
•National Alcohol Screening Day (April 8)
•National Infant Immunization Week (April 24 - May 1)
WV RESOURCE: WV Immunization Program
•March for Babies April (24 & 25)
WV RESOURCE: March of Dimes – WV Chapter
•World Meningitis Day (April 24)
•Alcohol Awareness Month
•Foot Health Awareness Month
•Irritable Bowel Syndrome Awareness Month
•National Autism Awareness Month
WV RESOURCE: Autism Training Center
•National Cancer Control Month
WV RESOURCE: WV Comprehensive Cancer Program
•National Child Abuse Prevention Month
WV RESOURCE: WVDHHR; Prevent Child Abuse WV
•National Donate Life Month
•National Facial Protection Month
•National Minority Health Awareness Month
•National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
•National Youth Sports Safety Month
•Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
WV RESOURCE: WV Foundation for Rape Information and Service
•Sexual Assault Awareness Month Day of Action (April 8)
•Sports Eye Safety Month
•Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month
•National Public Health Week (April 5-11)
•World Health Day (April 7)
•National Alcohol Screening Day (April 8)
•National Infant Immunization Week (April 24 - May 1)
WV RESOURCE: WV Immunization Program
•March for Babies April (24 & 25)
WV RESOURCE: March of Dimes – WV Chapter
•World Meningitis Day (April 24)
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