Caron Foundation Responds to Youth Tobacco Use.Business Editors WERNERSVILLE, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 26, 2001 The Caron Foundation Caron Foundation is a drug and alcohol addiction rehabilitation center located at a 110-acre facility in Wernersville, Pennsylvania, USA. Caron is a non-profit organization. , a nationally recognized not-for-profit chemical dependency chemical dependency n. A physical and psychological habituation to a mood- or mind-altering drug, such as alcohol or cocaine. chemical dependency treatment organization, is acutely aware of the great concern regarding the incidence of youth smoking. Although youth smoking rates have declined slightly since 1997, the rates remain unacceptably high. Research concerning gateway drugs has produced impressive evidence that adolescents who smoke cigarettes and consume alcohol at least one time per month are 30 times more likely to smoke marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. . In response to the serious concerns and research regarding youth smoking and the minimal amount of programs offered at this time for students, the Student Assistance Department at the Caron Foundation is integrating the Ending Nicotine nicotine, C10H14N2, poisonous, pale yellow, oily liquid alkaloid with a pungent odor and an acrid taste. It turns brown on exposure to air. Dependency Program or E.N.D., free of service, into their continuum of services provided to schools. The program is specially designed to help adolescents between the ages of 13-18 quit using tobacco. E.N.D. is a tobacco reduction and cessation cessation Vox populi The stopping of a thing. See Smoking cessation. program developed by the Utah Department of Health. The program not only builds skills and knowledge regarding tobacco use, but it also focuses on developing a wide variety of social skills, including communication, stress management, decision making, goal setting and nutrition and physical activity. The program consists of techniques to influence teen tobacco users': attitudes, beliefs, intentions, knowledge, self-awareness, self-efficacy and their social skills. E.N.D. can be effectively used for both youth that want to quit and youth who don't want to or who might not be ready to quit. During the program, youth learn tobacco-quitting skills that they can draw upon in the future, as well as a wide variety of social skills that will be helpful to them, regardless of their tobacco-use status. The Student Assistance Department will work with the Utah Department of Health in following the outcomes and results of the E.N.D. program. Follow-up studies will take place with the participants every 1, 3 and 6 months following completion of the program to evaluate whether the program decreases smoking behavior, changes attitudes about smoking and increases knowledge of the dangers of smoking. During the 1999/2000 school year, the Student Assistance Department at the Caron Foundation provided programming to over 23,000 students, teachers and parents. Currently, the Caron Foundation provides student assistance services to 55 schools and 5 institutions of higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. in Pennsylvania. They are primarily in Berks County and Luzerne County as well as in Lackawanna, Wayne, Pike, Montgomery and Lancaster Counties Lancaster County is the name of four counties in the United States:
relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc alcohol and other drug use, they are poised to expand their efforts to reduce youth tobacco use via already established prevention and cessation programs. The Caron Foundation is an internationally recognized not-for-profit chemical dependency organization headquartered at Galen Hall Galen Samuel Hall (born August 14, 1940 in Altoona, Pennsylvania) is an American football coach. Hall was the offensive coordinator at the University of Oklahoma from 1966 through 1983, offensive coordinator at the University of Florida in 1984, head coach at Florida from 1985 Road in Wernersville, Pa. Founded in 1959; Caron provides a complete continuum of care for chemically dependent individuals and their families. |
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