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H & S Business Services Offers Parents Tools to Fight Drug Abuse

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San Bernardino, CA (PRWEB) August 7, 2008

H & S Business Services, LLC has announced the offering of a Home Drug Test Program to detect teen drug abuse. The company’s involved in both community outreach and education programs about the dangers and telltale signs of drug abuse, as well as providing such in-home drug testing kits for sale to the general public.

H & S addresses the growing need for concerned and proactive parents who, in an effort to ensure their children live in a healthy, drug-free environment, are turning to the validation and peace of mind that a home drug test can provide.

“Statistical evidence documenting the escalation of drug use in our society is staggering. Studies demonstrate that home drug testing can play a vital role in reducing drug abuse among youth. Our in-home drug test is a valuable intervention tool in the war against drugs,” says H & S President Harrison Lux. He adds, “I am proud to be part of the solution and the opportunity to play a meaningful role in the anti-drug effort. This program gives parents control to definitively identify drug use. Parents can then seek the vital counseling and treatment needed for their children.”

In-home drug testing offers a discreet solution to a sensitive issue. In many ways drugs are easier to procure than ever before. With the relative ease to which teens can get drugs in schools, many are suggesting that even schools should introduce random drug testing, including one of the most visible proponents, US Deputy Drug Czar Dr. Bertha Madras.

H & S is available to address educational, civic, and other groups on a variety of drug related topics, including drugs and teens and the myriad of treatments, drug abuse assistance, and how government agencies are working to combat the prevalence of drug abuse.

Complimenting their community outreach efforts, H & S also offers an array of discreet, affordable in-home drug testing kits and solutions on their website, which can be found at www.DrugFreeNetwork.org. Kits offer discreet packaging and a reliable way for parents to ensure their children avoid the perils of drug abuse. Each in-home drug testing kit includes resources to find rehab centers, therapists, and counselors, and each kit also offers access to the toll-free Prevention Awareness Telephone Line to get additional facts by phone on a range of drug abuse and health topics.

For more information about H & S Business Services, their efforts in the fight against drug abuse, and their in-home drug testing kits, visit www.DrugFreeNetwork.org.

About H & S Business Services:

Based in the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, CA. H & S Business Services, LLC is the creator of a unique program and product designed to address the growing concern of teen drug abuse. Their mission is to provide reliable, accurate drug testing solutions to fight the prevalence of drugs in the community. H & S is a nationwide company and can serve any city in the country with their range of in-home drug test kits. More information about H & S can be found at http://www.DrugFreeNetwork.org.

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Springfield, MO (PRWEB) March 28, 2008

CaféPrevention.com aims to combat OTC and prescription drug abuse in teens by introducing to parents and adults a drug prevention postcard entitled “Hard to Believe, Isn’t It?”. Research indicates that the latest drugs being abused by teens are likely to be found right in the homes of your community. This is a shocking concept, and many parents and adults within neighboring towns may unknowingly be helping kids get high. Café Prevention aims to help inform parents and adults about this growing problem with the introduction of its newest drug prevention postcard.

CafePrevention.com works to provide community coalitions, schools, youth organizations, and youth ministries with drug prevention resources. One of Café Prevention’s top priorities is preventing substance abuse among youth through eye-catching prevention strategies including drug prevention games, pamphlets, posters, and most recently their latest postcard where each has been developed to encourage kids to reach their highest potential.

New reports tell us that 1 in 5 teens currently report abusing prescription drugs to get high. For the first time, there are as many new abusers, aged 12 and older, of prescription drugs as there are marijuana users according to SAMSHA. Additionally, 1 out of 10 teens report using cough medicine to get high. Community Partnership (http://www.cafeprevention.com) realizes that abuse of prescription and OTC drugs is an emerging threat to our young people and requires community action.

The good news is that research also shows that kids who learn about drug risks from parents and adults are half as likely to use as teens that don’t have that conversation. As a result, Café Prevention is launching its newest postcard to help communities marshal a response before the situation escalates even further.

Their latest addition, “Hard to Believe, Isn’t It?” has been developed to target parents and adults. With this simple yet effectively written postcard, adults are given essential information needed to start those all-important conversations. Furthermore, these postcards can be mailed or handed out in a variety of settings including physicians’ offices, libraries, workplaces, PTA’s, faith congregations, schools, and health fairs. The list of places that can benefit from these drug prevention postcards really is endless.

CaféPrevention.com understands that the abuse of prescription and OTC drugs simply isn’t on many parents’ and community members’ radar screens. However, it needs to be, and they have stepped up to make this a problem of the past by creating its newest postcard. In a 2007 survey, 62% of teens stated that prescription drugs are easy to get from parents, 47% stated they are easy to get from friends or relatives, and in 2006, 39% stated they were easy to get online or over the phone. Recently, there has been a dangerous shift towards pharming – the trading of prescription medications which are then ingested by the handful and oftentimes then mixed with alcohol – among teens.

There are troubling signs that teens view prescription and OTC abuse as much safer than illegal drugs. However, this is not the case. Rather, teens’ use of prescription drugs and OTC drugs to get high is a problem with far more serious consequences than most realize – teens that abuse have a higher risk of engaging in sexual activity, contracting STD’s, failing in school, addiction, overdose, and even death.

“We have taken statistical evidence regarding drug use among teens and coupled this with our desire to provide high-quality, cost-effective, and eye-catching drug prevention resources aimed at strengthen and empower today’s teens. We have made these materials, along with our latest postcard “Hard to Believe, Isn’t It?”, readily available to community coalitions, youth organizations, and youth ministries,” states Melissa Haddow, Executive Director of CaféPrevention.com

Designed to deliver critical information in an engaging, easy-to-follow format, the latest postcard, in addition to the extensive resources available at CaféPrevention.com, forms the basis of educational campaigns in communities around the country. These resources alert adults to new substance abuse issues and teaches them how to open the lines of communication. By showing adults how to educate children about substance abuse, as well as providing valuable strategies, this new drug abuse prevention postcard has been designed to get prescription drug abuse ‘on the radar screen’ of parents and adults. It is Café Prevention’s goal that this latest postcard will help mobilize communities around prescription and OTC drug abuse by teens.

CaféPrevention.com is a community’s source for high quality prevention materials designed to improve the health and well-being of our youth. For more information or to order eye-catching drug and alcohol prevention materials, please visit http://www.cafeprevention.com or call Melissa Haddow at 417-888-2020.

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