SUDDs Community Report - rev2 - Stop Underage Drinking/Drugs

SUDDs Community Report
The SUDDs Coalition began in 2008 when youth from several
Downriver communities came together to address the high rate of
underage drinking and tobacco use.
First called the Stop Underage Drinking Downriver Coalition, today
SUDDs stands for Stop Underage Drinking/Drugs.
The goals of the SUDDs Coalition are to reduce underage drinking,
youth access to tobacco and prescription drug abuse and to increase
community collaboration in the Downriver area.
The SUDDs Coalition consists of community members from local
schools, law enforcement agencies, city government, faith based
organizations, businesses and civic groups.
The SUDDs Coalition is supported by The Guidance Center and
funded through the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority and the
Drug Free Communities Support Program.
This report is funded in part by The Guidance Center and under grant #5H79
SPO19979-02 from the Office of National Drug Control Policy and Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
The views, policies and opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not
necessarily reflect those of the ONDCP, SAMHSA or HSS.
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www.suddscoalition.com
Our Goals
Prescription
Drugs
Tobacco
Alcohol
What We’re Doing
● Educate parents on how to talk to teens
● Reduce the ease of youth obtaining alcohol
about the dangers of underage drinking
● Reduce the number of youth binge drinking
● Training teen coalition members to educate ● Reduce the number of adults over 21
their peers on the dangers of binge drinking providing alcohol to minors
and put a spotlight on the majority who do
not drink
● Project Sticker Shock and other initiatives
to educate adults of the consequences of
providing alcohol to minors
● Teen coalition youth are educating their
family and friends about the health risks
of smoking
● Educating tobacco retailers to prevent
tobacco sales to minors and training youth
to perform undercover buys
● Working with schools to create
comprehensive tobacco-free school policies
● Reduce the number of youth who report
having smoked cigarettes recently
● Decrease the number of tobacco sales
to minors
● Teen coalitions are creating PSAs to
warn the community of the dangers of
abusing prescription drugs
● Creating an online prescription drug abuse
training video for medical professionals
● Encouraging community members to
dispose of unused meds at prescription
drug drop boxes
● Increase the number of youth and adults
who report prescription misuse to be risky
● Reduce the number of unnecessary
prescriptions written
● Reduce the number of unnecessary
prescription medication in households
Alcohol
1 in 7
Half
Rode in a Vehicle
with someone who
had been drinking
of youth indicate that
alcohol
obtain
is easy, or very easy, to
Most common
source of alcohol for youth
are friends over the age of 21
1 in 5
youth drink any type of
Alcohol
1 in 10
Binge
Drinking
Prescription Drugs
Tobacco
one-and-a-half times
of youth in SUDDs communities report
using tobacco in the last 30 days
the amount of prescriptions are
written in SUDDs communities
compared to Wayne County
of youth reported that they had
purchased their own cigarettes
15.5%
37.5%
40.7%
59%
Prescription
Drugs
are easy to obtain
of youth in SUDDs communities reported
that it is sort of easy to get cigarettes
of youth believe that they will not get
caught using tobacco at school
One-Half
of youth indicate that
SUDDs
Community
Wayne
County
1 in 3
youth state
Rx DRUGS
are the drugs of choice