Are you encountering more youth who abuse prescription drugs? You are not alone! The 2009 Center for Disease Control Youth Risk Behavior Study reported that over 20 percent of youth surveyed said that they had taken a prescription drug that wasn’t prescribed to them. This recent U.S. News article explores the most common substances a young person is likely to encounter today – including Adderal, OxyContin, and other drugs that are easy to “borrow” from family medicine cabinets. The full CDC report includes a wide range of risk behaviors, many of which will be sadly familiar to most youth intervention providers.
Come join YIPA to learn more. It is not too late to register for “Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Use and Youth” with Jay Jaffee of the Minnesota Department of Health on June 25th, 2010 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at Children's Home Society and Family Services, 1605 Eustis Street, St. Paul, MN. This event is FREE for YIPA members and only $25 for non-YIPA members.
This training is open to anyone who wants to learn about the misuse and abuse of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. This phenomenon has significantly increased over the past decade. More people, including youth, now report the non-medical use of these drugs than people who report abusing/misusing all other drugs except alcohol, tobacco and marijuana. We will examine how and why this has come about, which drugs are being abused and why, the impact on youth, information about these drugs and the harm they can cause, suggestions for preventing their abuse and resources available for prevention.
Are you a YIPA member? Join us for our summer quarterly meeting. The meeting will take place before this training at the Children’s Home Society and Family Services building from 10:00 am – 1:00 pm.
Looking for some summer fun? YIPA has paid for and arranged a private group tour for the YIPA membership of the new Target Field in downtown Minneapolis on Thursday, June 24! The tour is limited to 25 people, so if you are interested in going on this tour, please RSVP to cklejbuk@tcq.net. We will accept the limited reservations on a first-response basis and remember this is members only!
Following the tour, those who are interested will continue some social time at Roy Smalley's 87 Club, 100 N. 6th St. (at Butler Square and walking distance from Target Field - it is the former Champps restaurant location). If you are unable to be part of the tour, you are most welcome to join us at this restaurant (reservations are for 8:15 p.m.).
Interested in becoming a YIPA member? Contact cklejbuk@tcq.net to get a spot at the table next week.
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