To our Travis County Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition (TCYSAPC) family, membership, and community: TCYSAPC has been working with Kids Living Well (KLW) for the past year and this partnership has been one that has brought about a tremendous amount of good to the community. For all future endeavors, the 2 coalitions will no longer operate separately but will merge. Kids Living Well incorporates a whole health approach to address youth substance use prevention in our community. We are excited about this transition. To learn more, please visit: https://kidslivingwell.org/.
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Statesman Commentary: There’s not just one opioid crisis in Texas. There’s many
July 27, 2018 – Statesman.com — Could the heavy media coverage of the national opioid epidemic be drawing attention and resources away from chronic mortality associated with other drugs of abuse? Recent news articles — like “We are not immune: how the opioid crisis is hitting central Texas,” published by … Continue to full story .......
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TCYSAPC to meet on Aug 21 at LifeWorks
YSAPC will meet on August 21 from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm at the LifeWorks East Site, 835 N. Pleasant Valley Rd. Agenda includes: Joseph Dias who will present on dually diagnosed adolescents, trauma response and affect and how the ACEs can very much dictate the social-emotional tendency to invite … Continue to full story .......
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How To Treat the Growing Problem of Childhood Anxiety, try cognitive-behavioral therapy
Whether it’s feeling nervous to attend a new school, afraid of a scary looking bug, or scared of the dark, most children experience some form of anxiety. But up to one in three children experience more severe anxiety that affects their ability to learn and socialize.
Children with
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Are There Any Alternatives When A Physician Offers My Child Opioids for Pain?
Whether your child has struggled with opioid dependence or other substance use issues previously, or whether you’re just concerned about the current opioid crisis, there’s good reason to want your son or daughter’s pain to be managed – if possible – by something other than prescription opioid pills. Eventually,
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TCYSAPC Opioid Community of Care Year One Update
The Travis County Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition in partnership with Cardea announced first year update to their grant to prevent prescription and non-prescription opioid misuse among girls including webinars, webcasts and interviews with healthcare professionals and local media.
The project has accomplished the following in its first year:… Continue to full story .......
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Research shows keys for successful prevention efforts…
Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) says the best prevention efforts are:
►Are long-term.
► Use interactive methods and appropriate “booster sessions” to reinforce earlier program lessons and skills.
► Combine two or more effective programs, such as … Continue to full story .......
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How to Know if Your Kid is Vaping Marijuana — and What to Do About It
June 6, 2018 – PARTNERSHIP – Hardly a week goes by without another news article about vaping. In 2014, vaping was selected as Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, beating out other candidates like “Bae” and “Budtender”. If they were picking a word today, it would more likely be
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Cigarettes Have to Be Labeled ‘Deadly’ Now. Here’s Why
June 18, 2018 – TIME Health — A new rule requiring tobacco companies to describe their products as “deadly” and “addictive” on their websites went into effect Monday — and more regulations are coming. This comes after a US District Judge said tobacco companies had “violated civil racketeering laws and
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Study shows American teens are less into sex and drugs, still 14% report misusing opioids
June 15, 2018 – (ABC News) – A newly released study of about 15,000 high school students has found that fewer are having sex and fewer are using drugs. The use of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, inhalants, hallucinogens or ecstasy declined to 14 percent from 22.6 percent, but 14 percent … Continue to full story .......
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Opioid Use and Adolescent Health Tip Sheet – 2018
This TIP SHEET provides an overview of the opioid crisis, how it affects youth, and what grantees can do about adolescent use. The U.S. opioid crisis is affecting youth of all backgrounds and is not limited to youth of a specific socioeconomic status, race, gender, or geographic location, although the … Continue to full story .......
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Texas Big Rally for Recovery on Sept. 29 in San Antonio
Every September SAMHSA promotes Recovery Month to increase awareness and understanding of mental health and substance use issues and to celebrate communities. On September 29, 2018 Big Texas Rally for Recovery (BTRR) will gather at La Villita in Downtown San Antonio in support of recovery from alcohol and other substance … Continue to full story .......
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He Started Vaping As A Teen And Now Says Habit Is ‘Impossible To Let Go’
June 7, 2018 – NPR – Stores aren’t supposed to sell e-cigarettes to minors, but many high school students have been buying them for years and was never once carded. Public health advocates and officials worry these sales could be an emerging disaster, reversing years of declines in smoking.
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