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This Blog Has Moved and Changed Its Name

Embracing the Whirlwind is now simply the Daybreak blog located on the Daybreak Youth Services webpage.
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Adolescent Substance Use: America�s #1 Public Health Problem

The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse released a study on July 7 entitled Adolescent Substance Use: America�s #1 Public Health Problem. It reported that 9 out of 10 people suffering from addiction began using the addictive substance before they were 18. Addiction occurs in 1 in 4 people who started smoking, drinking, or using drugs before age 18, compared to only 1 in 25 for those who started at age 21 or older. Sadly, seventy-five percent of high school students have used addictive substances, with alcohol being the preferred choice. Forty-six percent of high school students are currently using an addictive substance, and 1 out of 3 of these students meets the medical criteria for addiction. Part of the problem is American culture and the acceptance of addictive substance use by parents, communities, and schools. Forty-six percent of children under 18 live in a household where smoking, excessive drinking, misuse of prescriptions drugs or use of illegal drugs occurs. The study highlights the cost of this epidemic, as well as the consequences for adolescents, including teen pregnancy, psychosis, impaired brain function, criminal involvement, and death. ( Full post )

"Happiness, knowledge, not in another place, but this place, not for another hour, but this hour..."
� Walt Whitman ( Full post )

Study: Benefits of Medical Insurance To Poor

First Study of Its Kind Shows Benefits of Providing Medical Insurance to PoorBy GINA KOLATA ( Full post )

Happy Fourth of July

Be careful and be sober. ( Full post )

Fresh Daybreak Website look with Interactive Blog

On July 1 Daybreak launched a fresh and expanded website with interactive Blog.
Check it out at www.daybreakinfo.org ( Full post )

Dentists� role in painkiller abuse

ScienceDaily (July 1, 2011) � In the cover article of this month�s Journal of the American Dental Association, a group of nine dentists, pharmacists, and addiction experts provides new research and recommendations to help dentists combat, rather than contribute to, abuse of addictive painkillers. ( Full post )

Health Care Professionals Need to Screen Teens for Substance Abuse, Report Finds

Daybreak clinicians have been actively meeting with physicians, physicians clinics, dentists and emergency departments to offer assistance in substance use screening and brief intervention with adolescent patients. There has been mixed reception in physicians offices but there have been an increase in identification and referral of teen clients out of a Spokane emergency room. ( Full post )

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Email from one of the counselors

"Today I was shopping and met a really lovely woman who was helping me. After a few minutes of talking, she asked what I do and I mentioned working at Daybreak. She then told me that her daughter had seen one of our counselors at Daybreak and that she had recently graduated from our outpatient program. The mother said that initially it was a very scary experience, but that the staff and counselor made her feel very comfortable and confident in handling what was happening with her daughter. She said, 'Daybreak changed my daugher's life.'" ( Full post )

You can be fired for using medical marijuana, justices rule

Employers in Washington state are allowed to fire employees who fail a drug test, even if they have valid medical-marijuana authorization, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. ( Full post )

"I know of no other way to perfection but love." � St. Therese Of Lisieux

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1 in 5 Young Adults May Have Hypertension

Researchers have found that hypertension may be much more common than expected among young adults
In this study, the prevalence of hypertension was almost 20% in participants ages 24�32, which is significantly higher than prior estimates. ( Full post )

Thinking of Mom

Daybreak kids make cards for their mothers: ( Full post )

Jazzin' It Up Concert and Auction

Daybreak in Vancouver, WA is having their 7th annual Jazzin' It Up Concert & Auction on May 7th at The Heathman Lodge in Vancouver. If you would like to buy tickets or donate to our event, please call Stephanie at (360) 635-4120 or smantey@daybreakinfo.org ( Full post )

Jazzin' It Up...... Dinner/Auction/Fundraiser

Lisa Mann will perform with her band at a dinner-auction fundraiser for Daybreak that�s set for 4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 7th at the Heathman Lodge in Vancouver, WA.
Tickets are $75; call 360-635-4120 or visit http://www.daybreakinfo.org to learn more. ( Full post )

Daybreak Targets Early Intervention

One of Daybreak's goals this year is to identify and intervene with young substance abusers as early in their abuse history as possible. ( Full post )

New Program Aims to Help Doctors Break Down Stigma of Addiction

By Join Together Staff | April 19, 2011 | ( Full post )

DEA to Hold Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

By Verena Huetteneder | April 14, 2011 | 0 Comments | Filed in Our BlogThis month, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will give the public the opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous prescription drugs during the second National Take Back Day on Saturday, April 30 from 10 am � 2 pm. The DEA and state and local law enforcement officials are organizing collection sites to take back unused, unwanted or expired over-the-counter and prescription drugs. These drugs can present a public health hazard given the potential for accidental poisoning, abuse and overdose if not taken care of properly. They can also pose environmental hazards from unsafe disposal. ( Full post )

This Is Your Brain On Ecstasy

Ecstacy Takes Away Memory - from MedPagsToday ( Full post )