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Supporting Community Collaboration for Preventing Substance Abuse in Hawai‘i

The Hawai‘i Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) website is an ongoing collaboration between the Hawai‘i State Department of Health’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division and the University of Hawai‘i Center on the Family. Our goal is to increase the understanding and implementation of high quality substance abuse prevention strategies in Hawai‘i's communities. We hope to facilitate and support a statewide prevention infrastructure that will become a sustainable part of our communities.

 

April 2022

Featured Updates

Effectiveness of e-cigarettes as aids for smoking cessation: evidence from the PATH Study cohort, 2017–2019. (Tobacco Control, February 2022)

Researchers utilized data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study to assess the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as smoking cessation aids. They found that the sale increases in high nicotine e-cigarettes in 2017 did not translate to more smokers using these e-cigarettes to quit smoking. On average, using e-cigarettes for cessation in 2017 did not improve successful quitting or prevent relapse.

Alcohol Marketing and Youth Drinking: Is There a Causal Relationship, and Why Does It Matter? (Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 2020)

The findings are the results of a rigorous meta-analysis of eight review articles, published as a supplement to the journal, which synthesized the results of more than 160 studies on alcohol advertising and youth alcohol consumption. 

Percentage of Adolescents Reporting Drug Use Decreased Significantly in 2021 as the COVID-19 Pandemic Endured (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2021)

Teenage drug, alcohol, and nicotine use declined dramatically from 2020 to 2021, according to the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) annual Monitoring the Future (MTF) survey. The MTF uses a three-stage sampling procedure to draw samples to be representative of the 48 contiguous states.

A Content Analysis of Cannabis Company Adherence to Marketing Requirements in Four States (Journal of Studies on Alcohol and opportunities for Reducing College Drinking: The Roles of Drinking Attitudes and Blackout Experience (NIAA, 2021)

Marketing messages can influence adolescents' attitudes and behaviors toward alcohol and tobacco. In the era of legalized cannabis use, retail cannabis companies often use social media marketing on platforms popular among youth. The purpose of this study was to evaluate adherence to the state-based regulations for restricted and required content across social media from recreational cannabis businesses. 

 

 

 

Training & Events

Apr 08 Fri
Lunch 'n Learns with Matt Burton

Men experience rejection, abandonment, feelings of inadequacy, and loss. These experiences can leave crater sized holes in us. The brokenness left by divorce, the physical and emotional pain caused by intimate partner abuse, the sting of rejection and abandonment, and the devastation suicide leaves behind are some examples of ways we can experience this. Join Matt as he shares practically and experientially about their impact and strategies to get better.

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Apr 14 Thu
The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana

Laura Stack, the founder of Johnny's Ambassadors, will be discussing the loss of her son, Johnny, the dangers of today’s potent marijuana on adolescent brain development, and the connection of youth marijuana use to mental illness and suicide.

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