One on five students in America has used an inhalant to get high by the time he or she reaches the eighth grade. Parents don't know that inhalants, cheap, legal and accessible products, are as popular among middle school students as marijuana. Even fewer know the deadly effects the poisons in these products have on the brain and body when they are inhaled or "huffed."

Today's podcast is an interview with Harvey Weiss, Executive Director of the National Inhalant Prevention Coalition.  The NIPC serves serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign.

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An interview with Dr. Jane Bluestein.  Dr. Bluestein is an award-winning writer whose books include Creating Emotionally Safe Schools, 21st Century Discipline, and Parents, Teens, & Boundaries.  Formerly a classroom teacher (in inner-city Pittsburgh), crisis-intervention counselor, and teacher training coordinator, Dr. Bluestein currently heads Instructional Supports Services, Inc., a consulting and resource firm in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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An interview with Susan Porter, Ph. D - School Psychologist the Winsor School in Boston, Massachusetts.  Ms. Porter discusses her article in Independent Magazine "Being an Adult in a Teenage World" and her work conducting seminars with faculty and parents in independent schools throughout the United States. 

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A recent survey conducted by Join Together a program of the Boston University School of Public Health shows that few teachers believe that alcohol and other drug prevention programs work.  Only 2 percent of more than 3,700 respondents felt that their school-based prevention programs were effective.  The report says that teachers are skeptical of the prevention programs they deliver.  It goes on to say that teachers cite the need more relevant study materials, more time to do prevention, more support, and more training. 

Although more training and enhanced study materials would certainly do no harm, how does this change the current destructive belief permeating our schools and our culture that drug prevention doesn't work?  It is not a matter of more time, more study materials, or more training, but a need for a fundamental change in how we define prevention, set prevention goals, and understand how children adopt and reinforce healthy and unhealthy behaviors.

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If you have any questions or comments on the show, email us at  jeff@jeffwolfsberg.com  or call our listener line at (206) 203-1706.

You can view "Show Notes" at our Prevention Blog under the catagory "Podcast Show Notes"

 

Prevention University Series:  Establishing a Prevention Coordinating Committee. The establishment of a Prevention Coordinating Committee (PCC) serves as a critical foundation for organizing a campus' alcohol and other drug prevention effort.  Not only does this help in the efficiency of campus efforts, but it also engages the key stakeholders in the process.  The episode is not meant as a full explaination of a PCC - training and consultation is needed to create and maintain this valuable foundational piece of strategic planning.  

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If you have any questions or comments on the show, email us at  jeff@jeffwolfsberg.com  or call our listener line at (206) 203-1706.

You can view "Show Notes" at our Prevention Blog under the catagory "Podcast Show Notes"