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Man Charged With Killing Unum Employee Had Been "Drinking All Night"
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Deadline Extension: Scholarship Applications, Call for Proposals and Award Nominations for CADCA’s Forum XX Open Until Oct 23 Deadline Extension: Scholarship Applications, Call for Proposals and Award Nominations for CADCA’s Forum XX Open Until Oct 23--
Don’t miss an opportunity to attend the CADCA’s 20th Anniversary National Leadership Forum at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort and Spa on February 8-11, 2010. Scholarship recipients will receive hotel accommodations for up to four nights (excluding incidentals) and registration fee to attend the forum. Click here to submit a Scholarship application.  
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CNN Commentary Slams Decision to Cut Safe and Drug Free Schools Program CNN Commentary Slams Decision to Cut Safe and Drug Free Schools Program--
The fight among students in Chicago that resulted in the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert highlights the critical need for schools to implement evidence-based violence prevention programs, says forensic clinical psychologist Dewey Cornell in a recent commentary on CNN. In light of these violent acts, Cornell questions why the White House proposes cutting the Safe and Drug Free Schools program, the only source of federal funding for school-based violence and substance abuse prevention.
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Oregon Partnership Pushes Old Navy to Remove T–Shirts Promoting Binge Drinking Oregon Partnership Pushes Old Navy to Remove T–Shirts Promoting Binge Drinking--
It all started with one letter from a prevention specialist in Bend, Oregon. On a recent back-to-school shopping trip, Cameo Chambers found t-shirts promoting binge drinking in her local Old Navy store. The shirts carry messages such as “Beer Pressure – Worth Giving In To!” and “Sloshball Champions – Staggerin Falls, Hi.” She wrote to the company and shared her concern with Oregon Partnership, a statewide organization dedicated to ending substance abuse and suicide. In response, Oregon Partnership has launched a campaign to have the shirts removed from stores. CADCA encourages all coalitions to follow suit and write to Old Navy’s parent company, Gap, Inc, requesting that they remove the shirts from store shelves.
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State Trainings Send CADCA Trainers Near and Far State Trainings Send CADCA Trainers Near and Far--
Shorts, sweaters—sometimes CADCA’s trainers just don’t know what to pack. In late August, CADCA trainers were in Hawaii reaching coalitions from the 50th state and U.S. territories in the Pacific. Two weeks later, they made the 3,500 mile journey to the 49th state, Alaska.
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Sign Up for Webinar About Preventing Underage Drinking Sign Up for Webinar About Preventing Underage Drinking--
Reserve your seat today for a webinar held on Oct 20, 2009 that will showcase a new free toolkit aimed at helping prevent underage drinking. The toolkit, WORKING to Prevent Underage Drinking: Workplace is the Key!, is designed to encourage the adoption of Drug-Free Workplace Programs that deliver education to working parents and other caring adults on how to prevent underage drinking.
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SAMHSA Releases Latest TEDS Report on Substance Abuse Admissions SAMHSA Releases Latest TEDS Report on Substance Abuse Admissions--
In its latest Treatment Episode Data set (TEDS) report, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) found that the criminal justice system was the largest single source of referrals to substance abuse treatment, accounting for 37 percent of all admissions (approximately 671,000 of the 1.8 million admissions).
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