Transcript Posters - Hancock County Planning Commission

Purpose and Goals
Denial
Relapse
Reasons for this Meeting
• Case for Intervention
• Planning what to do
• Public involvement
Contemplation
Maintenance
Action
Source: MYDAUS, 2006
Protective and Risk Factors, Youth
Protective factors are positively influenced through
caring relationships with family, friends, school and
community.
School
Interest in schoolwork and success
Positive school experiences
Proud of accomplishments
Community and Peers
Good social skills
Positive reinforcement and opportunities for
community involvement
Positive peer group
Family
Family rewards for positive involvement
Primary caregiver/parent interested in child’s school
successes
Sources:
Risk factors affect all age groups, however the
impact increases as children get older
Not interested in schoolwork or school success
Low commitment to school
Lower academic achievement
Poor family management
Person who lives in home who uses alcohol/drugs
Parental attitudes favorable to antisocial behavior
New factors emerge by grade 10
Friends’ use of drugs/alcohol
Intention to use drugs/alcohol
Perceived risk of drug use low
Early initiation of drug/alcohol use
Laws and norms favorable to drug use
A Parent’s Guide to: Your Infants and Child’s Resilience, Protection, and Threats
Healthy Peninsula 2004 Community Assessment
Maine Youth Drug and Alcohol Use Survey (MYDAUS) 2006
Protective and Risk Factors, Adult (19+)
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Supportive family
Supportive peer group
Beliefs/attitudes about alcoholself/peers
Consequences for misuse impact
decision making when using alcohol
Separation/divorce
Loss of spouse/partner
Change in Social Economic Status
Loss of or interruption of employment
Continuation of adverse effects from
childhood
Beliefs/attitudes about alcohol-self/peers
Alcohol/drugs are easily accessible in home
High exposure
Source: Adapted from: Monitoring The Future National Survey Results On Drug Use, 1975-2005
Protective and Risk Factors, Older Adult/Senior
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Access to resources, housing,
healthcare
Social supports
Supportive family relationships
Knowledge of how to safeguard their
health and skills to do so
Sense of purpose and identity
Lives independently with few supports
Spouse/partner death
Income lower so self esteem may be lower and thus
social status
Lower physical abilities
Declining health
Loss/reduction of hearing, sight, memory
Separated from children by distance
Loss of income if had to go into a retirement home or
senior housing unit
Loss of social supports and activities
Isolation/lack of independence
Lack of transportation
Source: 2006-Central East Addiction Technology Transfer Center-The Danya Institute-Silver Sp rings, M D 20910
Source: Hancock County and Statewide Needs, Resources, and Readiness Assessment on Older Adult Alcohol Abuse-University of Maine Center on Aging-August, 2006
Seniors are far more likely to engage in
alcohol abuse than other recreational drugs.
Source: University of Maine Center on Aging “Hancock County and Statewide Needs, Resources, and Readiness Assessment
on Older Adult Alcohol Abuse” (2006)
Maine Schedule-Two Prescriptions
Drug Type % of State Total
•
A high percentage of Schedule-Two
Drug prescriptions are narcotics and
tranquilizers
Stimulants
Others
0.83%
10.10%
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Doctor shopping is a growing
method for obtaining drugs
Internet drug sales are more
difficult to track
34.34%
Source: Maine’s Prescription
Narcotics
Tranquilizers
Total Scripts: 1,977,415
Electronic prescription monitoring
is one way to improve tracking
Maine PMP
Office ofProgram
SubstanceMaine
Abuse
Monitoring
54.73%
Data collection from July 2005 - June 2006
Benzo Conference, 2006
Questions
•
What are the causes of drug use abuse and
dependency in your area?
•
What patterns are you seeing in your
community?
•
What are some solutions? What has
worked and what hasn't?
Denial
Relapse
Contemplation
Maintenance
Action
Binge Drinking
• Binge drinking in
the prior two
weeks is reported
by more than
25% of High
School students
th
th
in 11 and 12
grades.
Source: MYDAUS, 2006