The DATE Office is the Orange Unified School District’s
Office that addresses issues of drugs, alcohol and tobacco use
through strategies of prevention, intervention and positive
alternatives.
Substance abuse is a
major problem for communities throughout world. Children who
engage in substance abuse do so for many reasons. Substance
abuse prevents our children from learning, prevents them from
achieving to their full potential and in many cases, substance
abuse can impact a child's entire future and in the worse case
scenarios, can cause death.
The goal of this website
is to link you directly to websites locally and across America.
This information is for parents, students, staff members and
our community. Everyone needs to be educated about substances
and their abuse. Substance abuse is wrong and illegal. Hopefully,
the following information will increase your knowledge about
this important topic and will help you to make good lifetime
decisions:
Emergency
Information
IF
EMERGENCY CALL 911
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF POISON
CONTROL CENTERS:
CALL 1-800-222-1222
Chapman Medical Center
Children’s Hospital of Orange
St. Joseph’s Hospital – Drug Guide
Western
Medical Center
Information
for Parents:
DATE Parent Flyer.pdf
DATE
drugs in our communities flyer.pdf
DATE Signs
and Symtoms Flyer.pdf
Orange Police - Parent Project
Orange Police -
Parent Project - Spanish
JADE
(Juvenile Alcohol & Drug Education)
How to Recognize Substance Abuse
Parents: Substance Abuse Information -Sober
Links - IARC
Parents; The Anti-Drug
Drugs and
Teen Substance Abuse
PARENTS_Marijuana_brochure.pdf
Ecstasy - Drug Info - Parents - The Anti-Drug
MADD Orange County
Home Page
MADD Online: Home
Child Safe Flyer - Side 1
Child Safe Flyer - Side 2
Child Safe Flyer - Side 3
Child Safe Flyer - Side 4
Information for Parents in Spanish:
National Institute Drug Addiction
Information on Drugs of Abuse -
Index
o Acid (LSD)
o Alcohol
o Cocaine
o Club Drugs
o Inhalants
o Heroin
o Marijuana
o MDMA (Ecstasy)
o Methamphetamine
"Speed"
o Nicotine (Cigarette Smoking)
o PCP (Phencyclidine)
o Prescription Medication
o Steroids (Anabolic)
Hot Topics
Substances
Abused in Our Communities
Listed below you will find information on substances that are
recognized by district administrators to be problems in our
community and in specific cases in our schools. Please
take the time to learn more about the dangers of these
drugs/intoxicants and the lifetime impact they have on our young
adults/children.
ALCOHOL:
A
child who reaches age 21 without smoking, abusing alcohol or using drugs is
virtually certain never to do so (Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President, The
National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University).
Alcoholism is a national disease that can begin at a very young
age and remain as an everyday challenge for a lifetime.
Alcohol and teen
drinking
Teens: alcohol and other drugs
Drug use - alcohol
Facts about teen drug and alcohol abuse
The cool spot
Teenage alcoholism can have lifelong effects
Effects
of alcohol
CORICIDIN (CCC - Triple C):
Coricidin is dangerous and deadly! There is a
national epidemic of students shoplifting, taking a large
number of tablets
and later going to poison units in their local hospitals for overdosing.
Large dosages of "Coricidin" can cause the liver to stop
functioning and cause death.
CWA - Coricidin information
CCC - Flyer
Over the counter drugs
What every parent should know about cough medicine abuse
Prescription/OTC
Abuse of Coricidin – Poison Center
Report
Youths risk death for cough-remedy high
ECSTASY-DATE DRUGS:
Long-term effects. Recent
research findings also link Ecstasy "MDMA" use to long-term
damage to those parts of the brain critical to thought and
memory. It is believed that the drug causes damage to the
neurons that use the chemical serotonin to communicate with
other neurons.
Ecstasy Drug/MDMA/XTC
Ecstasy
caused brain damage
Ecstasy 101
NIDA - Research Report Series - MDMA (Ecstasy) Abuse
Drug Rehab
Ecstasy Drug Treatment and Ecstasy Rehabilitation Teen Drug
Rehab
InfoFacts - MDMA (Ecstasy)
Neuroscience For Kids - MDMA (Ecstasy)
Effects of Ecstasy | Ecstasy Pills | Ecstasy Drug
INHALANTS:
When
young adults/children use inhalants to get a high, they are
destroying brain cells and are risking death. It is hard
to imagine why anyone would sniff paint, computer cleaner or
other household cleaners. It is everyone's responsibility
to teach our children about the dangers of substance abuse,
especially impressionable elementary and middle school children.
CNN.com - Survey: More teens abusing inhalants - Mar 18, 2004
Inhalant Abuse:
It's Deadly
Inhalants -
Silent Epidemic
Inhalants - National Drug Threat Assessment 2005
Drugstory | Feature | Teens & Inhalants
Tips for teens
- Inhalants
Neuroscience for Kids - Inhalants
Mind Over Matter: The Brain's Response to Inhalants
NIDA for
Teens: Mind Over Matter - 'Teachers Guide' - Inhalants
Brain-imaging study offers clues to inhalant abuse—huffing
MARIJUANA:
There
are more students abusing marijuana than any other substance.
It is not unusual for school administrators and teachers to
visually inspect a student's transcript and see where a child
grades go from A's, B's and C's to D's and F's and hear from the
student that his/her grades deteriorated when the student
started smoking marijuana. The links below will show you
the truth about marijuana. It is harmful to the body (one
joint is equivalent to 20 cigarettes) and longtime usage will
cause physical and emotional damage.
NIDA - Publications - Marijuana: Facts for Teens
NIDA - Publications - La marihuana: Lo que los padres deben
saber
Marijuana's Adverse
Effects -- familydoctor.org
Efectos adversos de
la marihuana -- familydoctor.org
Marijuana Use - Heavy Marijuana Use Affects Learning, Social
Skills
Effects of Marijuana - The Health Effects of Marijuana
Marijuana - Basic Facts About Marijuana
Smokers Underestimate Marijuana's Harm
Long-Term Marijuana Use Affects Memory
Smoking Pot Doubles Risk of Fatal Accident
Marijuana
Marijuana - FAQs for Teens
Marijuana - FAQs for Parents
Marijuana -
Marijuana Addiction - Marijuana Abuse Treatment - Drug
Dependency
Effects of cannibas.jpg
METHAMPHETAMINE
(SPEED):
Methamphetamine (Speed) is a terrible substance in the hands of
young adults/children. A large number of young
adults/children currently in juvenile hall test positive for
"speed." This is a major addictive drug and will ruin a
child's future, a family and will become a lifelong problem.
Seek professional help, if you suspect a loved one to be abusing
"speed".
Meth Information.pdf
Meth Crystal Meth Methamphetamine Drug Use Teens
10 Things You Oughta Know About... A Top 10 Fact Sheet on
Crystal Meth
Methamphetamine, crystal meth effects at SAMHSA's NCADI
Methamphetamine Abuse Leads to Long-Lasting Changes in the Human
Brain that are Linked to Impaired Coordination and Memory
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/meth/meth_info1.pdf
Meth Brain
Crystal meth girl
Body by Crystal Meth
TOBACCO:
Addiction and death, the research clearly establish the fact
that (1) the nicotine in cigarettes is addictive and the greater
likelihood of becoming addicted is in the middle school and high
school ages (90% of all smokers begin by age of 19), and (2)
long term smoking causes lung cancer and death (20% of all
annual deaths in the United States are related to smoking).
Although data currently reports that the numbers of teenager who
are smoking has decreased, there are still too many young people
smoking.
Welcome to Orange County
On Track
Our Health, Our Futures - Substance Abuse - Tobacco Abuse
Freevibe | Drug Facts | Smoking
Kids Most Influenced by Siblings' Drinking, Smoking
NIDA for
Teens: Mind Over Matter - Nicotine
Easy to
start - hard to quit
Smoking and Youth
Bust'n Out!
InfoFacts - Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products
Important Websites:
California:
California Department of
Alcohol and Drug Programs
TUPE - Tobacco Education
Program
California Department of
Justice - Stop Drugs
Drug Addiction Treatment
Center Substance Abuse Detox Programs
Drug Alcohol
Treatment Center California: DAAC Resources & Links
WWW
Epidemiology Virtual Library
CCRDA -
Links To Other Sites
National:
Home - American Lung Association site
Daily dose of drug and
alcohol news
Drug story
MADD Online:
National Institute on Drug
Abuse
U.S. Department of
Education Home Page
The Partnership For a
Drugfree America
National Inhalant Prevention
Coalition
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov
National Inhalant Prevention Coalition Web Site
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
Drug Enforcement
Administration Home
Food and Drug
Administration Home Page
Welcome to SADD
Students Against Destructive Decisions
(SADD)
DEA
Briefs & Background, Drugs and Drug Abuse, State Factsheets
Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools-Espanol
Red Ribbon Week:
Red Ribbon History
National Family
Partnership
Red Ribbon
Resources
Ten Red Ribbon
Week Activities
Chemical Testing:
Drug Abuse and Addiction: Signs, Symptoms, Effects and Testing
Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: Signs, Symptoms, Effects and
Testing
Drug
Test FAQ
To test or not to
test.pdf
California Healthy Kids Survey
Results:
What is the California Healthy Kids Survey, and
why do we do it?
The CHKS was developed under contract
from CDE by WestEd in collaboration with Duerr Evaluation Resources.
Assisting in its development was an advisory committee of researchers;
teachers; school prevention and health program coordinators;
and representatives from state and federal agencies, the California
Parent and Teachers Association, and the California Association
of School Boards. The questions were derived primarily from
the biennial California Student Substance Use Survey and the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Youth Risk
Behavior Survey.
In California, Local Education Agencies
and County Offices of Education that accept funds under the
federal Title IV Safe and Drug Free Schools and Communities
program or the state Tobacco Use Prevention Education program
must administer the CHKS at lease once every two years. Beginning
with the 2003-04 school year, CDE districts receiving Title
IV or state TUPE grants must: (1) conduct a representative district-level
survey in grades 5,7,9, and 11 in comprehensive schools, we
well as all students in non-traditional, alternative or continuation
schools, as determined by the CHKS sampling plan. This includes
charter schools that receive SDFSC or TUPE funding through the
district; (2) Provide the opportunity to participate to in the
survey to all private schools that receive SDFSC services from
the district.
The portions of the survey given in the
Orange Unified School District relate to (1) alcohol, Tobacco,
and Other Drug Use; (2) Violence and Safety; (3) Physical Health.
Further information about the survey may be found at CHKS:
Home (click here).
Click here for OUSD California Healthy Kids Survey information
The results of the California Healthy Kids Survey for our
district may be found at your child’s school or by calling
Mike Pollok at (714) 628-4073.
Key findings
5th grade
findings
Technical report
5th
grade technical report
