Know! To Start A School Year Drug-Free
As another school year approaches, you are no doubt making a back-to-school checklist so that your child can start the school year off right.
New shirts, new shoes. Check.
Pencils, erasers, notebook paper. Check.
Questions to ask your child about drugs and alcohol? Get it on the list!
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Properly Classifying and Taxing Alcopops
Drug-Free Action Alliance is bringing attention to alcopops which are sweet alcoholic beverages that appeal to children. Alcopops are currently classified by the state of Ohio as beer. Drug-Free Action Alliance is urging the state to reclassify these colorful, sweet-tasting, alcoholic products as mixed beverages.
To read Drug-Free Action Alliance's position paper and review other materials on Properly Classifying and Taxing Alcopops, Click Here.
Keep the Minimum Legal Drinking Age 21
Drug-Free Action Alliance strongly supports all states retaining 21 as the legal drinking age for alcoholic beverages. Alcohol is the number one youth drug problem in America and more young prople die from alcohol-related causes than from all other illicit drugs combined.
To read Drug-Free Action Alliance's position paper and review other materials on retaining 21 as the Minimum Legal Drinking Age, click here.
Alcohol Awareness Month
Drug-Free Action Alliance is observing the 22nd Annual Alcohol Awareness Month this April by bringing attention to the disease of alcoholism and emphasizing the health risks associated with problem drinking. This year’s theme is Saving Lives: Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking. Drug-Free Action Alliance is highlighting 4 topics during Alcohol Awareness Month:
2009 Releases and Information
Salvia Divinorum
Drug-Free Action Alliance followed Ohio House Bill 215 as it made its way through the Ohio General Assembly. HB 215 which bans the sale and possession of Salvia Divinorum in Ohio, passed both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly and was signed by Governor Ted Strickland.
Click here to view a Power Point presentation on Salvia
Click here to review HB 215
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