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Show II THE PROBLEM ; You Have a Choice . 7 pagel Utah 's Alcohol and Drug Problem How Serious Could It Be? page 2 Families in Transition .....page 3 Alcohol, Drugs, and the Elderly page 3 Consequences and Penalties of Drunk Driving page 4 CHOICE SOLUTIONS mi or TKT1 School Alcohol and Drug Prevention Programs Help Kids to Say 'No' page 4 lfl " Helping Families with Alcohol Problems page 5 Healthy Aging and the Wise Use of Medication page 5 Utah's First Ladies for Drug-Free Youth ..... page 6 Hi lS l " me Successful Steps Toward Alcohol and Drug-Prevention and Treatment page 4-5 III ' SUCCESSFUL CHOICES ft y A ' Living a Drug-Free Life .' page6 I &Dr-9zL Choosing the Natural High page 6 VUlr DUI ........ page7 ) KUTVYOUR CHOICE CAMPAIGN ' KUTV Alcohol and Drug Abuse Committee page 7 KUTV Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programming page 8 1. MYTH: Kids learn all they need to know about Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services . 1 . . page 7 alcohol and drug abuse in school. .. , .. 0 , , Viewers Guide Response Form pages FACT: Schools can help, but education starts x and ends with the family. WWblWM 1 1 ; : i iiiiiifaMid r i f chemical dependency. The facts don t . ' ' . - contain the helplessness and terror of . m f an entire family when they discover TftCT ft 5 A I CO M 0 1 i?T their teenage daughter is addicted to a w " T o"r " hard drug. If we want to seriously ask, viih "Ov""l am " "how serious could it be?," we must U1XJ JtXUJJlCrlll first be willing to relinquish our old YT f concepts, beliefs and myths, and invest JlQ'V' inOl? the new knowledge we acquire with , m. m m mim mm. i. n x. t n n n " the human meaning it deserves. COllld It B? Sr11 " When we think about alcohol abuse VrWU4.W4 J.I . The Cottage Program and alcoholism, we might picture a child who is charged with the horrible ' ' - task of keeping the family secret that his home is too devastated by chemical , When we think of alcohol and drug the number one killer of young dependency to provide adequate care problems and most of us dont people is alcohol and drug and nurturing for him. This picture of a ' unless we are faced with one related automobile accidents helpless child is most correct, not just pictures of old men sleeping in door- alcohol abuse alone drains over because a survey would count ; ways come easily to mind. Some of us $344 million from Utah's thousands of these children, or because , are a bit more sophisticated and economy, and is involved in six of they are truly innocent victims, but f f ponder the financial and professional Utah's seven most life- because chemical dependency is a ffftM,a""V,N ruin of a businessman who cant threatening and debilitating family illness. Alcohol and drug abuse Ul ' handle his liquor, or indulges himself health problems; and, damages the family first, and most I j once too often in the cocaine counter in the average school classroom profoundly. Thousands of Utah families culture. The rub with these stereotypes of 30, six Utah children live in are affected by chemical dependency, j jfrlL is notjust that theyare incorrect or families affected by alcohol with tens of thousands of children JJfc rC yT misleading. The basic job they do is to abuse. destined to repeat the generational rQ I vf S protect us from the truth. They support But, these hard statistics do not cycle of alcoholism. From alcoholism '1 denial and stigma and promote a sense illuminate the even harder human and drug related deaths on the highway f II of pleasant, self-assured security at the reality of family alcoholism and drug to suicide, crippled families, overdoses J expense of social understanding abuse. The facts alone dont seem to be and birth defects, we know that alcohol 069 XL well as our physical and emotional - enough to change the stereotypes and and drug abuse remains our state's Y health. break our denial. Even well-schooled most serious problem mmmjlmm S In this age of instant information, professionals that is, the authorities we have all been introduced to the in the alcohol and drug abuse field, How Serious Is It? . 4 , basic facts about our serious alcohol continue to refer to a person who is There aivnnstatUtirsnfnain and 2. MYTH: It's easy to tell when a person uses and drug problem. Many would receive recovering from alcoholism as a rtinSffltoSiB alcohol and drugs. a passing mark on a truefalse or reformed alcoholic. Our lapse in TtSlSK FACT: Family and friends are often the last to Lnw?110"-Many reacts the depth and power tS3Sfi?ffirf know. people know that of the protective myths and stereotypes responsibility ThP solution Hp with .k.MM.Mtr 'SSiSSSmr . aS'anddmg abusers TJSLlMp gSS'"""'1" the lives of every religious, picture a single one of Utah's 38,000 ethnic, professional and eco- children who suffer the daily fear, nomic group in the state; humiliation and emotional damage caused by growing up in a home torn by . |