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Start Talking Before They Start Drinking
Nearly 1 in 5 teens (4.5 million people) said that they use prescription medications to get high,1 and 1 in 10 (2.4 million people) said that they use prescription stimulants and tranquilizers to get high.2 Nearly two-thirds of teens report that prescription pain relievers are easy to find at home, in the medicine cabinet.3
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Sources for PARENTS...Countering The Problem Of Tween Drinking

1 National Institute on Drug Abuse. Monitoring The Future National Results On Adolescent Drug Use: Overview of Key Findings, 2000.

2 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2003). 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

3 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2004). Make a Difference. Talk To Your Child About Alcohol. Bethesda: MD: National Institutes of Health.

4 Ralph W. Hingson, ScD, MPH; Timothy Hereen, PhD; Michael R. Winter, MPH. (2006). Findings From 2001-2002 National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Related Conditions, Age at Drinking Onset and Alcohol Dependence, Age at Onset, Duration and Severity. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, 160, 739-746.

5 Curie, C. (2006). Start Talking Before They Start Drinking. A Family Guide Web Site, last accessed 11/21/06. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

6 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2003). 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

7 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2004). Make a Difference. Talk To Your Child About Alcohol. Bethesda: MD: National Institutes of Health.

8 SAMHSA. (2006). Start Talking Before They Start Drinking. A Family Guide Web site, http://www.family.samhsa.gov/, last accesssed 10/19/2006.

9 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2004). Make a Difference. Talk To Your Child About Alcohol. Bethesda: MD: National Institutes of Health.

10 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2004). Make a Difference. Talk To Your Child About Alcohol. Bethesda: MD: National Institutes of Health.

11 National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. (2004). Make a Difference. Talk To Your Child About Alcohol. Bethesda: MD: National Institutes of Health.
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