A UNITED EFFORT WITH REAL RESULTS...
Anti-Drug Coalitions from 16 counties are coming together and learning ways to help keep their communities safe and drug free.
When the entire ship's company were assembled, and with curious and not wholly unapprehensive faces, were eyeing him, for he looked not unlike the weather horizon when a storm is coming up, Ahab, after rapidly glancing over the bulwarks, and then darting his eyes among the crew, started from his standpoint; and as though not a soul were nigh him resumed his heavy turns upon the deck. With bent head and half-slouched hat he continued to pace, unmindful of the wondering whispering among the men; till Stubb cautiously whispered to Flask, that Ahab must have summoned them there for the purpose of witnessing a pedestrian feat. But this did not last long. Vehemently pausing, he cried:—"What do ye do when ye see a whale, men?"
The Marshall County Family Resource Network (FRN) has received funding through the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant (SAPT) to fund United in Prevention (UP Project). The funding is focused toward substance abuse prevention efforts throughout 16 counties in Region One. Each county's substance abuse prevention coalition will receive a sub-grant to carry out the prevention strategies within their county.
Region One is comprised of sixteen counties in the northern portion of WV where alcohol use by youth under the age of 18, tobacco use by youth under the age of 18, and prescription drug abuse by youth under the age of 18 and adults between the ages of 35 and 54 are common. Using the Strategic Prevention Framework, the Marshall Co. FRN's United in Prevention (UP Project) will specifically target those issues throughout Region One through capacity development and the implementation of evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs and practices.
Thank you to Doddridge County Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition for hosting a Bath Salt Forum. Please click here for the media story!
Thank you to Brooke & Hancock's Advocates for Substance Abuse Prevention for hosting a Forum on Bath Salts & Synthetic Marijuana. Click here for the media story!
Click here to view CADCA's "Designer Drugs: The New Frontier" and hear about what experts are saying about this drug epidemic. During the program they explore rapidly growing designer drugs including bath salts and spice.
Approximately 6 out of 10 teens agree that prescription drugs are easy to get from parents' medicine cabinets. Source: The Partnership for a Drug Free America 2009