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Prevention Basics for Families

It’s a fact: Parents are the most important influence in a child’s life. Research shows that children whose parents talk with them about the dangers of drugs and underage drinking are less likely to try them.

Maybe you’re a parent or caregiver who isn’t sure where to start. You wonder how to talk with your child about exactly why drugs and alcohol are dangerous to them.

If that’s the case, this kit can help. It presents facts and offers suggestions for setting up good communication with your child, setting and enforcing clear rules consistently, and helping them choose friends wisely.

You’ll also find an activity comic book for elementary-school children and handy informational pamphlets for teens.

Order FREE online, or call 1-800-729-6686 and ask for the Prevention Basics for Families, inventory number PBKIT2.

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Special Feature Kit Publications

• Keeping Youth Drug Free (52-page booklet)
• McGruff’s Surprise Party (comic book)
• NSDUH Report: Inhalant Use and Delinquent Behaviors Among Young Adolescents (short report)
• Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders, In Brief (pamphlet)
• The Role of Parents in Preventing and Addressing Underage Drinking (fact sheet)
• Tips for Teens: The Truth About Methamphetamine (pamphlet)
• Wake Up to the Risks of Marijuana: A Guide for Parents (brochure)
• Your Time . . . Their Future: Membership-Based Groups Provide Positive Activities (12-page booklet)

NCADI Library Search
This database search contains an annotated bibliography of current literature about addiction disorders, treatment, and recovery. The database, available online, is an excellent resource for research, reports, and articles on this and related subjects.

NCADI Resource Catalog and Supplement

These publications list the print and multimedia resources on substance abuse prevention and treatment available through SAMHSA’s NCADI.

Click here to order this FREE kit, or call 1-800-729-6686 and ask for the Prevention Basics for Families kit, inventory number PBKIT2.

Publications in this special offer are developed by the following Federal agencies: the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), SAMHSA’s Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), SAMHSA’s Office of Applied Studies (OAS), the National Institute on Alcohol and Drug Abuse (NIDA), as well as the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). These materials are distributed by SAMHSA’s National Clearinghouse for Alcohol & Drug Information (NCADI).

Special Feature Video

Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family
VHS: $12.50 each (VHS201)
DVD: $13 each (DVD191)
Running time: 30 minutes
In this moving film, you’ll visit a summer camp program for children of alcoholics and hear youngsters tell their experiences in their own words. Then 15 years later, meet some of these same children as adults who received the tools they needed to grow up and lead full, healthy lives. Closed captioned

Kids, Crime, Drugs, and Consequences
VHS: $12.50 each (VHS226)
DVD: $13 each (DVD226)
Running time: 29:55 minutes
This award-winning video features three short segments geared for older elementary-school, middle-school, and high-school students, as well as teachers, parents, and other caring adults. “It Never Goes Away,” “Not Free,” and “Hard Knocks High” point out the consequences of committing a crime as a juvenile and how those consequences can last a lifetime, especially when a young person is involved in a crime associated with illegal drugs.

To order these videos, call SAMHSA’s NCADI at 1-800-729-6686 anytime, day or night, and ask for VHS201, DVD191, VHS226, or DVD226.