Free campaign kit, newsletter address public health issues
Seat belts save lives. Youth drinking can destroy lives. Educate yourself and your patients about the importance of buckling up and the dangers of alcohol consumption by young people. Here are two free resources to help:
Buckle Up for Love!Buckle Up America! The AAFP is participating in the President's Initiative for Increasing Seat Belt Use Nationwide. Goals set by the initiative include increasing seat belt use to 85 percent and reducing child fatalities by 15 percent by the year 2000.
To assist in this effort, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is offering Buckle Up America! action kits. Each kit contains resource materials to help organizations and individuals interested in starting Buckle Up America! campaigns in their area.
You can request a kit by writing to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NTS-21, 400 Seventh Street SW, Washington, D.C. 20590. Or get an order form by using AAFP Express (see box on page 2).
Alcohol Alert. Despite a minimum legal drinking age of 21, many young people in the United States consume alcohol. The latest issue of a free newsletter, published by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, can help you stay informed about the risk factors and consequences of youth drinking.
You can subscribe to Alcohol Alert, which is published quarterly, by sending your request to the NIAAA Publications Distribution Center, Attn: Alcohol Alert, P.O. Box 10686, Rockville, Md. 20849-0686.
Alcohol Alert also can be accessed at http://www.niaaa.nih.gov on the World Wide Web. This site provides the full text of Alcohol Alert bulletins and other selected documents, access to the online alcohol research database, and content and order information for the journal Alcohol Health & Research World.
FP Report is published by the AAFP News Department. Copyright © 1998 by American Academy of Family Physicians.