Recovery Month Conference 2012: Marijuana: What’s the Problem? Risks & Realities

Ventura, CA

The 2012 conference, Marijuana: What's the Problem? Risks and Realities, focused on an overview of marijuana, from the recent scientific research on the impact of marijuana exposure on the developing adolescent brain, to local prevention efforts being made to educate and inform communities about the risks and realities of marijuana misuse.

• Marijuana: The Blunt Truth, Dr. Christian Thurstone, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

• Clearing up the Smoke on Marijuana Policy, John Redman, Executive Director, Californians for a Drug-Free Youth

• Identity and its Role in Shaping Prevention Strategy, Jonah D. Ansell, CEO & Chief Storyteller, JAMS Productions
  

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

DUI Prevention - Crashed Car Trailer Exhibit

June 20, 2012
Ventura, CA

On June 20, 2012, Ventura County’s first crashed car trailer exhibit was unveiled at the Ventura County Government Center. The unveiling was presented by the Ventura Police Department and Ventura County Behavioral Health Department. The event included comments from leaders in local law enforcement, Supervisor Steve Bennett, and featured the first viewing of a shared county resource - a mobile DUI prevention exhibit to raise awareness about impaired driving, and to support good driving decisions.

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day which will take place on Saturday, April 28, 2012, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This is a great opportunity for those who missed the previous events, or who have subsequently accumulated unwanted, unused prescription drugs, to safely dispose of those medications.

Americans that participated in the DEA’s third National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on October 29, 2011, turned in more than 377,086 pounds (188.5 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,327 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states and U.S. territories. When the results of the three prior Take-Back Days are combined, the DEA, and its state, local, and tribal law-enforcement and community partners have removed 995,185 pounds (498.5 tons) of medication from circulation in the past 13 months.

See the Disposal Bin locations in Ventura County.

E-Newsletter - April 2012

The April 2012 E-Newsletter features the Conejo Valley Community Forum in Thousand Oaks on Prescription Drug Abuse and the Heroin Danger, National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, Alcohol Awareness Month and the Ventura DUI Program and Prevention Services Grand Opening Celebration. Keep in touch and sign up to get the e-newsletter. We are on Facebook and Twitter too.

Ventura DUI Program & Prevention Services - Grand Opening Celebration

Ventura, CA

E-Newsletter - January 2012

The January 2012 E-Newsletter features the Choose Your Ride Impaired Driving Campaign, the prescription drug abuse epidemic and the work being done in our community, and teens and marijuana. Keep in touch and sign up to get the e-newsletter. We are on Facebook and Twitter too.

Choose Your Ride: Impaired Driving Campaign

Choose Your Ride Billboard Locations:

Wooley Road and Rose Avenue, Oxnard
Fifth Street, Oxnard
Telephone Road and Los Angeles Avenue, Saticoy

Choose Your Ride Bus Shelter Locations:
Gonzales Road, one near Walmart; one near St. John’s Hospital, Oxnard