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Michael DeLeon. Because You Can’t Scare Kids Straight Today. KILLING MORE THAN PAIN. Prescription Drug Misuse/Abuse Leads to Increases in Alcohol Use/Abuse by Youth and ALL Drug Use by Youth and Young Adults – Especially Heroin Michael DeLeon – Steered Straight, Inc.
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Michael DeLeon Because You Can’t Scare Kids Straight Today
KILLING MORE THAN PAIN Prescription Drug Misuse/Abuse Leads to Increases in Alcohol Use/Abuse by Youth and ALL Drug Use by Youth and Young Adults – Especially Heroin Michael DeLeon – Steered Straight, Inc.
We ALL Need To Talk About It 2013 - Steered Straight has increased calls to 2ND Floor by an average of 63%
WHY? There’s no one single reason, there’s a multitude of reasons Youth out of touch Denial Suburban Naiveté Misinformation NOT MY KID! Poor Parenting Uninformed
How do good kids get involved? There’s no one single reason, there’s a multitude of reasons Blame lies not in one place, it lies in everyplace.
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We Don’t Focus On Reality Lisa Robin Kelly – Dead at 43
Addicted in New Jersey – Teens in Crisis – Pt. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLxO105yhOk
Addicted in New Jersey – Teens in Crisis – Pt. 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYiElyEgElc
ADDICTION Drug Addiction Is Not About Drugs, It is About BRAINS!!!
ADDICTION It MUST BE: * Diagnosed Early * Treated Individually * Monitored Regularly For every dollar we spend In New Jersey on dealing with addiction, we spend 3 cents on prevention and 97 cents on ‘after-the-fact’ clean-up!
Heroin is Changing EVERYTHING It is completely addictive – INSTANTLY! * Enters the bloodstream immediately * Travels to the Brain immediately * Tricks the Brain for pleasure, and then the body for pain * It’s like NO Other Drug
ADDICTION In NJ, we have 6,000 Treatment Beds, yet we need 70,000 Nationwide, only 6% of treatment referrals come from health care providers. MOST come from the criminal justice system. We are failing to prevent and treat the disease until the costly consequences occur!
Solutions - EDUCATORS • Educators are CANDLES IN THE WIND When I was in prison, most of the young inmates I spoke to named a “TEACHER” or a “COACH” as their hero or role-model. • I bet they spanked their kids • I bet they ate dinner as a family • I bet they took their kids away on vacation • I bet they grounded their kids when they got bad grades
Adolescent Drug and Alcohol Use Alcohol is still the most abused drug by teens however it Co-exists 40 % of those who started drinking at age 13 or younger developed alcohol dependence later in life. Even casual drug and alcohol use can kill you Prescription drug use / Marijuana use is WAY UP Huffing is on the rise, Alcoholic Energy Drinks KILL! 500% increase in NJ in unauthorized use of prescription drugs in past 3 years *
Prescription Drugs – The FACTS The scope of America’s prescription drug abuse problem is staggering New Jersey in 2010 saw more than 7,000 admissions to State-licensed or certified substance abuse treatment programs due to prescription painkiller abuse – a 230 % increase from 2005. • In June 2011, the New Jersey State Commission of Investigation reported that a growing number of young people are abusing prescription drugs, and noted a significant trend in which the practice has led to increases, not only in the number of young people addicted to painkillers, but to the number of young people using heroin as well.
Prescription Drug Abuse Russian Roulette
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Consequences of Drug Involvement It’s not only using drugs that can get you sent to prison Don’t be the person that gets the drugs, deals the drugs, or even “arranges” for the drugs to be copped 2C:35-9 – Strict Liability for drug-induced deaths Oct 4, 2010 - Megan Plank has been charged with two counts of first degree drug-induced death and one count of third degree distribution of heroin in relation to the Nov. 12, 2009 overdose of Christopher Coppola and Sara Malaker in Springfield. They were both 20. She Faces 25 years in prison
Consequences of Drug Involvement It’s not only using drugs that can get you sent to prison Don’t be the person that gets the drugs, deals the drugs, or even “arranges” for the drugs to be copped 2C:35-9 – Strict Liability for drug-induced deaths Oct 18, 2007 - 19-year-old Kiernan Hunt was charged with supplying the heroin that authorities say contributed to the death of an 18 year old Westminster Choir College freshman at an apartment in Princeton. He Faces 20 years in prison
Consequences of Drug Involvement It’s not only using drugs that can get you sent to prison Don’t be the person that gets the drugs, deals the drugs, or even “arranges” for the drugs to be copped 2C:35-9 – Strict Liability for drug-induced deaths Nov 18, 2010 - 21-year-old Joseph Colatrella of Jackson, NJ was sentenced to 15 years in prison for selling what turned out to be a fatal dose of heroin to a 20 year old Lakehurst man, Phillip Michaels. He had NO PRIOR criminal convictions. He stated that he didn’t “intend” to cause Phillip’s death. He must serve 85% - 12 ¾ years