Substance Abuse
The Piscataquis Public Health Council (PPHC) is engaged in three important objectives related to substance use:
- Reducing alcohol use among youth
- Reducing high risk drinking among adults
- Reducing the misuse of prescription drugs.
PPHC works closely with:
- Schools to increase the effectiveness of school substance abuse policies,
- Businesses to increase awareness of health risks of high risk drinking among employees.
- Retailers to promote responsible beverage seller server trainings. Contact the Community Partner Specialist at 564-4184 to sign up for FREE training.
Resources
Safe Medicine Disposal for ME Program: www.safemeddisposal.com
Party Smarter: PPHC News Release 12/22/09
AlcoholScreening.org This is a link we are encouraged to provide to employers so employees may gauge their alcohol use. www.alcoholscreening.org/
Frank Lyons of BC Consultants Training identifying intoxicated persons, keeping intoxicated persons from driving, affects of alcohol, false ID detection, carding policy, and the importance of written policies. Frank is a certified instructor with the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, instructing Maine Liquor laws, forgery and multi-jurisdictional enforcement. www.alcohol-training.com/.
TIPS (Train for Intervention Procedures) trains servers, sellers, and consumers of alcohol how to prevent intoxication, drunk driving, and underage drinking. www.gettips.com
Mayo Regional Hospital’s Counseling Program offers mental health evaluation and assessment; outpatient individual, family and group mental health counseling; substance abuse evaluation and assessment; outpatient individual, family and group substance abuse counseling www.mayohospital.com/pract/pract_counsel.php
US Department of Health and Human Services, Substance abuse and Mental Health Services www.samhsa.gov/
21 Reasons To Prevent Underage Drinking provides parents with resources on ways to prevent kids from underage drinking. www.21reasons.org
Find Out More Do More provides parents and guardians with resources about how to keep kids free of drugs and alcohol. www.MaineParents.net
Drugfree.org is a drug abuse prevention and treatment resource, existing to help parents and caregivers effectively address alcohol and drug abuse with their children. www.drugfree.org
National Institute on Drug Abuse provides education resources & materials on drugs of abuse, marijuana, ecstasy, smoking, and steroids. www.drugabuse.gov
Project Sticker Shock is designed to warn adults about the penalties for providing alcohol to minors. www.maine.gov/dhhs/osa/prevention/youth/sticker.htm
Above The Influence contains ads seen in magazines and on TV that reflects what teens across the country are going through in their lives. www.AboveTheInfluence.com
American Legacy Foundation helps young people learn how to reject tobacco and to quit using tobacco. www.americanlegacy.org/
Every 15 Minutes program offers real-life experiences without the real-life risks. This emotionally charged program, entitled Every 15 Minutes, is an event designed to dramatically instill teenagers with the potentially dangerous consequences of drinking alcohol. This powerful program will challenge students to think about drinking, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions when lives are involved. www.every15minutes.com/enter/enter.html
The AntiDrug.com was created by the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign to equip parents and other adult caregivers with the tools they need to raise drug-free kids. www.theantidrug.com/
The Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center was established by the Office of Juvenille Justice and Delinquency Prevention (within the U.S. Department of Justice) to support its Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws Program. www.udetc.org/index.asp
The Parents Resource Center provides advice and stories from parents and professionals about drug prevention, intervention and raising healthy teens. www.drugfree.org/parent/#
A Family Guide To Keeping Youth Mentally Healthy & Drug Free is a public education Web site developed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to communicate to parents and other caring adults about how they can help promote their child's mental health and reduce his or her risk for becoming involved with alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs. www.family.samhsa.gov/
Too Smart To Start helps youth, families, educators, and communities prevent underage alcohol use and its related problems. It provides useful programs and strategies, downloadable materials, interactive games and exercises, and other resources to support you in responding to preventing and reducing underage drinking. toosmarttostart.samhsa.gov/
Office of Substance Abuse Work Alert provides advice on implementing drug-free worksite policies and helping employees to become drug-free. www.maine.gov/dhhs/osa/prevention/workplace/workalert/
Got a Minute? Give It to Your Kid is a social marketing campaign prepared in 2002 for state and local tobacco control programs. www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco_control_programs/campaigns_events/got_a_minute/
The Maine Youth Action Network (MYAN) trains, supports, connects and advocates for youth organized to effect positive change through school and community-based peer programs. We are a partnership of youth and adult staff working to help youth and their advisors in peer groups to fulfill their own mission. Youth groups of all types can be part of MYAN, including social action, prevention, education, peer listening, mediation, mentoring, health promotion, civil rights and others. If your group is working to make a positive difference, join the network to gain ideas, support and information from other young people and advisors from across the state. www.myan.org
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ASPIRE program is a self-paced learning experience that offers interactive activities, videos, support strategies and fun animations to help you reach your goal of becoming tobacco-free. You'll learn how to make the best choices for you — and how to stay on the path of good health. www.mdanderson.org/departments/behavioralsci/dIndex.cfm
StepUpNC.com is a place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. www.stepupnc.com/
The Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine contains information and resources for parents, educators, communities, providers, workplaces, and special populations. www.tobaccofreemaine.org/
TheTruth.com contains real facts and information about tobacco. www.thetruth.com/
