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Connecticut News
June 22: "Celebrations, summer can turn deadly for teens"
Every year in the United States, 5,000 people under the age of 21 die from
alcohol-related
causes, wrote the The New Haven Register. Dr. Gail D'Onofrio, chief of Emergency
Medicine at Yale-New Have Hospital comments on the increase in underage drinking
accidents seen during the summer months and the many high school graduation parties.
To combat this many schools throughout the state put on post graduation events.
This year West Haven students will head out to a substance-free post graduation
party dubbed "Blue and White..Up All Night!"
June 18: "NIDA Study Shows School-Based Prevention Program Reduces Problem Behaviors in
Fifth-Graders by Half "
In a recent study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), it was found
that school based prevention programs begun in elementary school can significantly
reduce behavioral problems in students. The National Institute of Health news
release stated "Fifth graders who previously participated in comprehensive interactive
school prvention program for one to fou years were aboust half as likely to engate
in substance abuse, violent behavior, or sexual activiety as to thsoe who did
not take part in the program." The study was performed in 20 public elementary
schools in Hawaii, all of which ahd belwo average test scores and a diverse student
body.
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