Thursday, May 2, 2013
Contact Urban Outfitters to Stop Selling Products that Promote Prescription Drug Abuse
Urban Outfitters, the national retail store popular with teens, is currently selling pint glasses, flasks and shot glasses made
to look like prescription pill bottles. These products make light of
prescription drug misuse and abuse, a dangerous behavior that is
responsible for more deaths in the United States each year than heroin
and cocaine combined. Medicine abuse has increased 33 percent over the
past five years with one in four teens having misused or abused a
prescription drug in their lifetime. Combined with alcohol, the misuse
and abuse of prescription medications can be especially dangerous,
making the Urban Outfitter Rx pint and shot glasses and flasks even more
disturbing.
As
recent research from The Partnership at Drugfree.org shows, teens and
parents alike do not understand the health risks associated with the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs.
In fact, more than a quarter of teens mistakenly believe that misusing
and abusing prescription drugs is safer than using street drugs.
Tongue-in-cheek
products that normalize and promote prescription drug abuse only serve
to reinforce the misperception about the dangers associated with abusing
medicine and put more teens at risk.
Ask Urban Outfitters to remove these products from their stores and website immediately.
Feel free to use the information above to help make your point.
CONTACT INFO FOR Urban Outfitters:
Send an e-mail to:
Richard A. Hayne; CEO & Chairman
Write a letter:
Urban Outfitters, Inc.
5000 South Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19112-1495
5000 South Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19112-1495
Sign the Facebook Causes petition by clicking here.
When you take action, reply to this e-mail to let us know - and please forward this message to a friend or colleague.
Join us and make your voice heard!
The Partnership at Drugfree.org
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Government Hasn’t Made Progress on Most Drug Control Goals: Report
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) found the
federal government has not made progress on most goals for reducing drug
use, which were outlined in the 2010 National Drug Control Strategy, UPI reports.
The strategy included seven goals, including reducing drug use among
12- to 17-year-olds by 15 percent. There has been no progress on this
goal, primarily because of an increase in teens’ use of marijuana, GAO
reported. Teens have decreased their use of other drugs, the report
noted.
The GAO noted programs designed to prevent and treat drug abuse are
spread over 15 federal agencies, some of which provide overlapping
services. “These programs could provide or fund one or more drug abuse
prevention or treatment service that at least one other program could
also provide or fund, either to similar population groups or to reach
similar program goals,” the report stated. “Such fragmentation and overlap may result in inefficient use of resources among programs providing similar services.”
Many prevention and treatment programs that GAO surveyed did not
report coordination efforts, according to the report. The office noted
40 percent of surveyed programs said there was no coordination with
other federal agencies on drug abuse prevention or treatment activities.
The Office of National Drug Control Policy has said it will work with
agencies administering federal programs that provide drug abuse
prevention and treatment activities to enhance coordination, according
to the article.
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