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15th Annual National Inhalants Poisons Awareness Week (NIPAW)

The National Inhalant Prevention Coalition (NIPC) is leading the 15th annual National Inhalants & Poison Awareness Week (NIPAW) campaign, March 18th to 24th. This campaign is designed to mobilize your community to educate and raise awareness about the dangers of inhalant abuse. Contact Harvey Weiss at nipc@io.com, phone (800) 269 - 4237 or (423)265 - 4662 for information or a NIPAW local coordinator toolkit (limited in number). For more information, please visit: http://www.inhalants.org.

NEW National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP)

The new National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) is now available, and greatly expanding the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s efforts to help local organizations make informed decisions about evidence-based interventions for the prevention and treatment of mental health and substance use disorders.

Key features of the new NREPP system include:
Custom searches based upon desired outcomes, target populations and service settings:

Details on each intervention including: a brief descriptive summary, the types of outcomes achieved, the costs of implementing the intervention, and the complete contact information for the intervention developer
Two independent expert ratings for each intervention – the first assessing the quality of research supporting specific intervention outcomes, and the second assessing the availability of implementation and training materials to support adoption of the intervention in routine service settings.

For more information about NREPP ratings, how to use NREPP to identify specific interventions, or how to submit an intervention for review, visit the Web site at www.nrepp.samhsa.gov; contact NREPP at
1-866-43NREPP (1-866-436-7377); or send an e-mail to NREPP@samhsa.hhs.gov.

An Action Plan for Behavioral Health Workforce Development

This is the culmination of a two-year effort of work to create a national strategic plan to strengthen the mental health and addictions workforce. More than 5,000 individuals were engaged in the planning process.

The plan is available for download without charge at the Coalition’s website (www.annapoliscoalition.org). In addition to the full plan, an Executive Summary is also available.

NIAAA Study Finds Reduced Brain Growth in Alcoholics with Family Drinking History

The brains of alcohol-dependent individuals are affected not only by their own heavy drinking, but also by genetic or environmental factors associated with their parents’ drinking, according to a new study by researchers at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Researchers found reduced brain growth among alcohol-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism or heavy drinking compared to those with no such family history.

Their report has been published online in Biological Psychiatry at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00063223 as an article in press.

Acting Surgeon General Issues National Call to Action on Underage Drinking

Developed in collaboration with the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the Call to Action identifies six goals:

Foster changes in society that facilitate healthy adolescent development and that help prevent and reduce underage drinking.
Engage parents, schools, communities, all levels of government, all social systems that interface with youth, and youth themselves in a coordinated national effort to prevent and reduce underage drinking and its consequences.
Promote an understanding of underage alcohol consumption
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in the context of human development and maturation that takes into account individual adolescent characteristics as well as environmental, ethnic, cultural, and gender differences.
Conduct additional research on adolescent alcohol use and its relationship to development.
Work to improve public health surveillance on underage drinking and on population-based risk factors for this behavior.
Work to ensure that policies at all levels are consistent with the national goal of preventing and reducing underage alcohol consumption.

To view the Call to Action, visit: http://www.stopalcoholabuse.gov.