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"During Natural High I learned that  drugs can really damage your life and potential to become what you want ."             
              Ryan Anderson, Student, ME

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The Natural High DVDs are distributed for free to every middle and high school in the country; 114,000 public and private schools reaching 31 million children.

Dear Educator,

NATURALHIGH.ORG has recently been relaunched!! With the creative expertise of our new website management company, PIXEL LAVA, the site is fully functioning with the addition of a NH Celebrity page, a Press and Sponsorship page, and a resource spot for Parents and Educators. Here you can find the accompanying Natural High Discussion Guides, articles, reports, and other curriculum downloads.

We also would like to announce the winning teacher of our first Natural High DVD Feedback Sweepstakes!! David Hedge, Student Assistance Counselor from McLaughlin Middle School who just won $1,000 for his school simply by filling out our DVD Feedback Form on www.naturalhigh.org! Feedback on our DVDs from teachers is very valuable to us. We use you ratings, concerns and suggestions when planning different aspects of future DVD content.

A new feedback sweepstakes has officially started. Fill it out for a chance to win! This time, the winning teacher will win $500 for themselves and $500 for their school!!!

Best of luck,

Drug Free Athletic Resources

For all you health teachers and coaches out there, concerned with the latest news on drugs and athletics, we encourage you to check out the National Center For Drug Free Center. Founded in 1999 by Frank Uryasz, previous director of sports sciences for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), Drug Free Sport?s experts have established a group of powerful and effective services to help athletic organizations create a drug free environment.

In 2001, Drug Free Sport developed the Dietary Supplement Resource Exchange Center (REC) as a confidential hot-line and website to answer athletes? questions about dietary supplements and banned substances. Their website also contains a plethora of news and information in the following topics: steroids, amphetamines, College/NCAA, Dietary supplements, law enforcement, high school, government action and professional sports.

Dust Off - A Killer Substance

Jeff Williams, a police officer in Ohio, started a viral email campaign warning others about the dangers of ?Dusting? amongst Middle School kids. Jeff had a passion for building computers and was currently working on one in February of 2005. He bought a 3 pack of "Dust Off" but soon started recognizing that the cans were becoming empty a lot sooner then he expected. He talked to his two sons who both said they had used them on their computer and messing around with them. He yelled at them for wasting money but then returned to the store to purchase more. A few days later his wife went to wake their son up for school and found him hunched over, dead, on his bed with the straw from the can of "Dust Off" coming out his mouth.

Dust Off is a can of compressed air to blow dust off a computer. It is being used by kids ages 9 through 15. It gives them a slight high for 10 seconds and makes them feel dizzy. His son?s best friend told him it was cool and couldn't hurt you. Little to his knowledge it contains a propellant called R2 that decreases the oxygen to your brain and heart. There is no warning that it can kill you, however you usually die as you're breathing it in, if not within 2 seconds of finishing 'the hit.' We need to get this product out of our homes and school computer labs. Using Dust Off isn't new; it just isn't talked about much.  To read more on this story click here.

TimetoTalk with Dr. Drew

The Partnership for a Drug Free America recently launched a new site this year called, TimetoTalk, with the hope of encouraging parents to set aside time to talk to their children about drugs. TimeToTalk provides adults with practical tips, tools and information to not only start the conversation, but to keep it going. According to the Partnership Attitude Tracking Study, Teens 2007, by having regular conversations with your children, they are up to 50% less likely to use.

But that?s not all, famous radio figure, Dr. Drew, star of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, agreed to Partner with TimetoTalk to show his support. As part of this partnership, he created a 30 second PSA and he posed a question for parents on Yahoo! Answers, the largest knowledge-sharing community on the Web.

Your Role in Alcohol Messaging

Research indicates that warning children about the dangers of drinking and substance abuse will have little effect if parents do not set a good example. In other words, if there is drinking going on in the homes that more than anything else, is going to mold the children's attitude about their own drinking. There are five types of drinkers parents generally fall in to:

• Stress Busters
• Mood Enhancers
• Inappropriate drinking
• Binge Drinkers
• Abstainers

Read here for common words and actions that stem from these attitudes, and how they could contribute to a child?s association to alcohol consumption.

  The students knew the musical artists and cheered when they saw them. They listened to the message. It was not someone preaching to them, it was done in an easily relatable manner.                                                                                        
                                                                                  Cheryl Newsham, Teacher, Mascenic Regional High School, NH