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Created by Team TQ0310171 on March 13, 2003
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Fight against
drugs
Several of us on our web site team
are members of a community action group: PRIDE. Parent's Resource Institute for Drug Education mission is
to help in the healthy drug- free development of the families and youth. PRIDE
provides leadership training to students, family life-skills, education
resources, and public programs designed to reduce the
illegal use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs. Every year since 1983,
junior high and high school students go to camps called Positive Action and Positive
Attitude. These camps try to help students feel better about decision-making
skills, and help develop leadership ability. The students that attend these camps
must be drug free and committed to school and community activities to
participate in these camps. Checkout PRIDE’s web site at www.preventionwithpride.org. We have looked through the Web and have found that these
web sites have very good for information on drugs and drug abuse. This web site has an introduction about how nicotine works,
what it is, nicotine in the body, nicotine and the brain, its dark side,
addiction and withdrawal, and toxicity. Copyright 1998-2002 howstuffworks,
Inc. How alcohol works, http://howstuffworks.com/alcohol.htm,
Craig C. Freudenrich, Ph.D. This website has an introduction to how alcohol works, what
is alcohol, how alcohol enters and leaves through the body, the effects of
alcohol, how the body responds to alcohol, and alcohol abuse. Marijuana: Facts
for teens, http://www.nida.nih.gov/MarijBroch/Marijteens.html,
National Institute on Drug Abuse. This web site gives you tons of information on marijuana.
This web site goes into a lot of detail. It has information on just about
everything you would like to know. If you would like to know
about marijuana and other drugs this is the place to go. Office of National Drug Control
Policy, http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/,
John P. Walters. This web site has a lot if information on drugs. They give
you drug facts, treatment, prevention etc… The Office of National Drug Control
Policy is under the Executive Office of the President, and it was established by
the Anti- Drug Abuse Act of 1998. ONDCP sets goals for the
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