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WV News
- The 2008 EUDL Public Service Announcements are available.
Please contact Stephanie Southall at
Stephanie.Southall@marshall.edu
if you would like a copy.
- Stephanie Southall (Underage Drinking Prevention Specialist) and Biddy Bostic
(Synar Compliance Specialist) have begun a joint alcohol and tobacco merchant
education project. The purpose of the project is to provide community
organizations with information and tips to pass on to retailers to reduce sales
of alcohol and tobacco to underage customers, thus limiting the retail access of
these products to youth. If your organization is interested in
participating please contact Stephanie Southall.
Click here for more
information about this project.
National News
- 11th Annual Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center National
Leadership Conference Reminder
The 2009 conference, "Beyond Boundaries: Timely Trends and Technology," will be
held at the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center in Dallas, Texas. Hotel
reservations can be made by calling the hotel at 1-817-778-2000; to receive the
special discounted rate, mention the National Leadership Conference. Rooms are
going fast, so please do not delay. For more conference information,
click here. -
Binge Drinking Damages White Matter in Adolescent Brain
A new MRI study finds that adolescents damage
the white matter in their brain -- which helps relay information between brain
cells -- when they binge on alcohol,
HealthDay News reported April 21.
- Depressed Teens at Higher Risk of Committing Suicide When Drinking
A new study finds the risk of suicide rises sharply in
teens that drink when they are depressed. The study conducted by the University
of Connecticut Health Center shows that the suicide risk increased 68 percent
among students in grades 7-12 who drank when they felt depressed and had
previously thought about suicide. Risk also increased threefold among those
teens who never contemplated suicide previously.
The authors said the findings demonstrated the need to screen teens for alcohol
use that could predict impulsive suicides.
The study was published in the April 2009 issue of the Journal of Adolescent
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Colleges Need to Target Biggest Drinkers, Study Says
College students who drink the most are at highest
risk of injury and should be a focus of campus-based prevention efforts,
according to the authors of a new
study from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Need help getting started?
The PRC helps communities solve their own problems. If you or your
group is interested in working on preventing underage drinking locally, we can help
you get started. If you've already started, we can help you keep going.
We offer assistance on a wide variety of topics from coalition development to finding
your vision, strategic planning to program implementation, evaluation to resource
development and everything in between. If you have a specific topic that you
want training on, don't hesitate to contact us- we usually have someone on staff
that is qualified to develop the training that you and your community have need
of. 
Upcoming Electronic Seminars from the UDETC
OJJDP's Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center offers regular trainings through
an electronic format. If you're interested in "attending" any of these
seminars, please click here
or contact Stephanie Southall
at 304-766-6301 ext 25 for instructions. Upcoming seminars include:
July 23, 2009 @
3:00 p.m. |
Using Volunteers for Underage Drinking Enforcement Operations and other Events |
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The WVPRC proposes to coordinate state-level system efforts to
build the capacity of individuals and organizations to prevent and reduce childhood
and underage drinking
For archived News & Events, click here.
SADD: Saving Lives Since 1981
West Virginia Students Against Destructive Decisions
Check out WVSADD at
www.wvsadd.org!
For more information about SADD and its initiatives, contact Travis Helmondollar.
RSS Feed
RSS (Really Simple Syndication, RSS 2.0) is a way of allowing people to subscribe
to the content of a particular site. The IT staff at the PRC is currently working
with Stephanie Southall and the Underage Drinking Prevention Workgroup to develop
an RSS feed (a way of streaming information directly to subscribers) for
underage drinking. It would act as an underage drinking prevention news clearinghouse
for the state of West Virginia. If you have questions about RSS in general, when
subscription will be available, or how to subscribe, please contact
Stephanie Southall.
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