A Full Lessson on Inhalant Abuse Prevention

From the Bemidji Pioneer in Minnesota:

Officer Jon Hunt of the Bemidji Police Department is acknowledging his community’s increasing concern over inhalant abuse by extending his inhalant abuse lessons in the classroom.

For his 6th grade students, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) materials reference inhalant abuse as a part of one lesson. Officer Hunt is expanding this to develop a full lesson on huffing.

Thank You Officer Hunt.

D.A.R.E. Graduation in Florida

Following up on the previous post, 5th graders in Santa Rosa Florida also recently celebrated their graduation from D.A.R.E.

The Santa Rosa Press Gazette in Florida printed the local winning D.A.R.E. essay. Upon completion of the program the students are required to write an essay detailing what they learned in the sessions. "A top winner is selected from each of the fifth grade classrooms, and from those winners one essay is selected as the best."

The winning essay includes a few mentions regarding inhalant abuse:

Winning D.A.R.E. Essay
by Destiny Redd

• "I learned a lot of important things that I never knew in D.A.R.E. Now I know how to make healthy choices. It also helped me to make good decisions in any situation. I learned how to get out of risky situations."
  
  
• "Facts about inhalants: Headaches, muscle weakening, abdominal pain, severe mood swings, and violent behavior. Numbness and tingling of hands and feet, decrease or loss of sense of smell, nosebleeds, and lots more effects could happen. Hundreds of legal household products can be sniffed or huffed to get high. All inhalants can be toxic"
  
  
• "So all of these different types of drugs, I never would of thought that they could do so much harmful things to your body. Especially the inhalants because a little kid could sniff one of the inhalants and that little kid could get high"
  
  
• "I am so excited that I learned these facts about tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and other drugs that hurt our body. But if my friend ever tried to make me do something like all that stuff, I would just tell them “If you are my friend you wouldn’t try to make me do something I don’t wanna (sic) do.” And I’d walk away. The kids and teens that do tobacco, marijuana, alcohol and other bad drugs, they are not very smart because they’re messing up their life. I don’t care if I’m cool or not, but I think the people that do that stuff are the ones that are not cool. I’m glad I learned about things. So I thank you D.A.R.E."

NH Children Learn About Inhalants

From the Rockingham News in Exeter, NH:

Approximately 120 children recently attended a local D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) field day in New Hampshire.

From the following statement within the article it seems inhalant abuse was part of the discussion and the preventative message reached the children. Thank you D.A.R.E.

“As they wandered from exhibit to exhibit, Fremont fifth-graders Cameron Breton and Matt Dupras said they "learned a lot" in D.A.R.E."We learned how to say no to drugs," Matt said. And they learned why: "Drugs can affect your whole body," he said.Cam added, "Inhalants can kill you the first time you use them."