Pill To Treat Addiction May Become The Next Drug Problem

Pill To Treat Addiction May Become The Next Drug Problem

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

richard.hayne@urbanout.com

Write a letter:

Urban Outfitters, Inc.
5000 South Broad St
Philadelphia, PA 19112-1495

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Government Hasn’t Made Progress on Most Drug Control Goals: Report

By Join Together Staff | April 29, 2013 | Leave a comment | Filed in Drugs, Government, Prevention & Youth

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.

Saturday, May 18: Breakfast With the Angels From 8:00 to 10:00 am, please join COA for a delicious flapjack breakfast at the Applebee's Restaurant on Rt. 33 in  Hamilton, NJ!  The modest price of $8 per person will entitle you to all the flapjacks, sausage, coffee and orange juice you can consume, all delivered by friendly volunteer Angels! This is an important fundraiser for COA, since COA receives $5.50 of each ticket.  To help us plan, please purchase your ticket/s in advance. To purchase your tickets online now, click here. Your name will be on a VIP list and your table will be waiting for you when you arrive. For online ticket purchasers only, one party will be chosen at random to receive their breakfast for free, and will be refunded their entire purchase up to 10 tickets.    *******************   Immediately after the breakfast, join COA at the A.I.R. (Attitudes in Reverse) 5K walk and run at Mercer County Park East Picnic Area. There will be pony rides, face painting, a community butterfly release, AKC Canine Good Citizen testing, Bright & Beautiful Therapy Dog evaluations, Doggie Demos, Blessing of the Animals and many other activities for pets. COA will have a table in the vendor area, spreading the word about addiction help.  A.I.R. helps prevent student suicide. To learn more about this important organization, click here. Wanted: Vendors for Rockfest on June 22 On Saturday, June 22, City of Angels will host its 5th annual Rockfest at Mercer County Park, East Picnic Area. Last year, this free live music event drew more than 1,000 people and this year's Rockfest will be even bigger & better! Rockfest 5 will include a car/truck/motorcycle show, Barbeque Grill-Off with Wounded Warrior judges, children's games & amusements, Magic Matt the Magician, Rhythmania drum circles, great food and much, much more. Vendors are invited to set up tables with information about their products and services in the Exhibit Area. Cost is $150 (for profit) or $75 (not for profit). All vendor tables must be booked in advance; to reserve your space, please click here to issue payment and in the "Purpose" line, note that this is a payment for a vendor table at Rockfest 5. You will receive a confirmation via email. Food vendors please contact cityofangelsnj@hotmail.com. Thursday, May 2: Volunteer Meeting Have some extra time? Want to make a difference? City of Angels needs you! We are now planning several major events for later in 2013 and need people to help with event planning, promotion, staffing and other critical tasks. Come to the volunteer meeting at 6:30 pm on Thursday, May 2 at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ) and find out how you can get involved. Pizza from Family Nest Italian Restaurant will be served, and maybe a few other goodies.... If you would like to volunteer but can't get to the meeting, contact COA's Director of Volunteers, Lynn Cranstoun, at lcwolflady@optonline.net.  COA's Kevin Meara on NJTV's Due Process If you missed Kevin Meara discussing New Jersey's Good Samaritan Law on NJTV's Due Process last week, the link is now online. To watch the show, click here.  Dwier Center Detour   For the next nine months, the bridge over Route 130, immediately in front of the Dwier Center, will be closed for construction. Here are the directions to go around the mess: At the five-way intersection by Picerno's Gas Station and the old fashioned clock, proceed straight onto South Broad Street instead of taking the right onto Church Street. Go straight on South Broad for about 1/2 mile, then turn right onto Main Street. Continue another 1/2 mile, then take a right onto Church Street. You will see Family Nest Italian Specialty Restaurant on the righthand corner. Dwier Center will be on the right, just down the road. For questions about alternative routes, contact cityofangelsnj@hotmail.com.

Tidbits   COA hosts support group meetings for both addiction sufferers and their families every day of the week at the Dwier Center (392 Church Street, Groveville, NJ). This includes 12-step meetings, a new Thursday night veteran's support group, Saturday night self-injury support group, Sunday night Spirituality Meeting, and the popular Sunday morning family support group, The Breakfast Club. To check out our online calendar, click here.     For directions to the Dwier Center, click here.      The COA website now offers an Addiction News Feed with the latest studies, reports, new and other info on addiction. It's updated in real time with the top 30 articles. To read the feed, click here.  New videos are up on the COA YouTube channel. To watch, click here.      Join COA's Pinterest community! To visit the boards, click here.          Keep current on COA activites - join the COA group on Facebook!  COA news is posted first on Facebook, and this page often has photos not available elsewhere. Click here to visit.   City of Angels NJ, Inc. is a non-profit organization that provides many services to addicts and their families including interventions, recovery support, Family Program, counseling services and more. All of our services are provided at no charge.

Greetings,

Please see the attached PRO-ACT Philadelphia Recovery Community Center Calendar for May and flyers for upcoming events. Please see below for programs that you may be interested in:

Recovery Enhancement Classes: Recovery Management often requires certain life skills necessary for becoming successful and productive members of society. We have developed 10 recovery enhancement classes designed to help remind or even teach the recovering person for the first time, how to develop and use these skills while managing their recovery. This series of classes will run from 5/2/13 until 7/11/13. If a person completes all ten classes by 7/11/13, the participants will receive a certificate of completion and a graduation ceremony. Please note that the certificate of completion and graduation ceremony is limited to the Thursday evening classes only. Space is limited to the first twenty people. Please call and register today. If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to call us at 215-223-7700.

Now view the new film Trailer

  

CLICK HERE to view the Trailer

for this powerful film

Order tickets HERE

or call Kristin at 215-345-6644 ext 3114

VIP Reception and film: $75

Film: $15 (at door if available $20)

Act now!

Don't wait until tickets are sold out!

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at Holy Family University ETC Auditorium Corner of Frankford and Grant Avenues, Philadelphia, PA (plenty of free parking) A catered VIP Reception will be held prior to the screening and will offer attendees the opportunity to talk with business leaders, legislators, experts in the field, the filmmaker and others VIP Reception: 6:00 pm Film: 7:00 pm (doors open 6:45 pm) Panel Discussion: 8:30 pm

The moving story of The Anonymous People is told through the faces and voices of citizens, leaders, volunteers, corporate executives, public figures, and celebrities who are laying it all on the line to save the lives of others just like them. This passionate new public recovery movement aims to transform public opinion, engage communities and elected officials, and finally shift public policy toward lasting solutions. Help us to change the conversation from problems to solutions for America's top health problem! Any funds raised through this event will be used to support Advocacy and Recovery SPONSORSHIP AND EXPO OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE  If interested, please send an email to Marita by clicking here or call her at 215-345-6644, ext. 3160

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