November 13th is American Medicine Chest Challenge Day

The event will take place on November 13, 2010 in communities across the country. 
This initiative will challenge Crittenden County residents to take the Five-Step American Medicine Chest Challenge:

•  Take inventory of your prescription and over-the-counter medicine. 
•  Lock your medicine chest. 
•  Dispose of your unused, unwanted, and expired medicine in your home or at an American Medicine Chest Challenge Disposal site. 

In Crittenden County it is our Local Police Station and Sheriffs Office during their normal day working hours. 

On November 13, 2010 the collection will be Next to Mc Donald's at the Outdoor Farmers Market. Click here for online map location.
•  Take your medicine(s) exactly as prescribed. 
•  Talk to your children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.  

To help combat this growing threat to our nations children, Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community, Crittenden County and the City of Marion are hosting the American Medicine Chest Challenge (AMCC) on November 13, 2010, residents can find us at the local collection site mentioned above. The Police and Sheriff will safely dispose of your used and old medications weekdays from 9AM to 3PM. 

The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows prescription medicines to be the most abused drugs by Americans, other than marijuana and found that 70% of people who abuse prescription pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives. A recent study on drug use by of teens by the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) found that one in 9 children are abusing prescription pain relievers to get high. 

"This Challenge will raise awareness about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs and reduce the availability of potent drugs that lead kids down a path to addiction,'' explained American Medicine Chest Challenge Chief Executive Officer Angelo M. Valente. 

“With the American Medicine Chest Challenge we are calling on residents to see their medicine cabinets through new eyes -- as an access point for potential misuse and abuse of over-the-counter and prescription medicine by young people,” explained Valente.

Call your local police department for more information in your area. 

Western Kentucky Helpline

24/hr 7day/week local helpline

Pennyroyal Hotline

1-877-473-7766

Pennyroyal Center is a comprehensive Community Mental Health Center providing services for Mental Health, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse. We have four full service clinics located in Hopkinsville, Madisonville, Greenville and Princeton, Kentucky. If you want more information about our services, or need to schedule an appointment, call our 24-hour RESPOND Center toll free at 1-877-473-7766, or in Christian County at 881-9551.

We have a team of clinical assesors on duty to serve you.

November 13th is American Medicine Chest Challenge Day. 
Next to Mc Donald's at the Outdoor Farmers Market. 
Click here for online map location. 

The event will take place on November 13, 2010 in communities across the country. 
This initiative will challenge Crittenden County residents to take the Five-Step American Medicine Chest Challenge: 

•  Take inventory of your prescription and over-the-counter medicine. 
•  Lock your medicine chest. 
•  Dispose of your unused, unwanted, and expired medicine in your home or at an American 
   Medicine Chest Challenge Disposal site. In Crittenden County it is our Local Police Station and 
   Sheriffs Office during their normal day working hours.
   On Noverber 13, 2010 the collection will be Next to Mc Donald's at the Outdoor
   Farmers Market. Click here for online map location.
•  Take your medicine(s) exactly as prescribed. 
•  Talk to your children about the dangers of prescription drug abuse.

To help combat this growing threat to our nation’s children, Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community, Crittenden County and the City of Marion are hosting the American Medicine Chest Challenge (AMCC) on November 13, 2010, residents can find us at the local collection site mentioned above. The Police and Sheriff will safely dispose of your used and old medications weekdays from 9AM to 3PM. 
The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows prescription medicines to be the most abused drugs by Americans, other than marijuana and found that 70% of people who abuse prescription pain relievers say they got them from friends or relatives. A recent study on drug use by of teens by the Partnership for a Drug Free America (PDFA) found that one in 9 children are abusing prescription pain relievers to get high. 
"This Challenge will raise awareness about the dangers of abusing prescription drugs and reduce the availability of potent drugs that lead kids down a path to addiction,'' explained American Medicine Chest Challenge Chief Executive Officer Angelo M. Valente. 
“With the American Medicine Chest Challenge we are calling on residents to see their medicine cabinets through new eyes -- as an access point for potential misuse and abuse of over-the-counter and prescription medicine by young people,” explained Valente.

Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community

WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR

 • Sponsoring KIP surveys to students regarding drug and alcohol abuse & sponsoring community forum to discuss the results.
• Drug Court in Crittenden County, residential, if needed, and highly structured intensive outpatient treatment, along with aftercare.
• Providing Funds for treatment and transportation to treatment.
• Educational Forums for parents and the community with the Pennyroyal Drug Task Force.
• Providing Support for Ghost Out program at CCHS and 4-H's participation in drug abuse educationa leadership programs.
• Supporting Emmanuel's Celebration Recovery & Parenting Classes & Lifeskills for Children
 
• Supporting Masonic Model training, a progran designed to identify at-risk students and train middle school teachers to teach life skills to students (program to begins this fall).
• Pennyroyal Hotline: 1-877-473-7766
• Created this web site to inform the nation, Western Kentucky and this community about the Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community.
 

Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community

To Report Suspected Child Abuse, Neglect or Dependency
Call  1-800-752-6200
24 Hour Hot Line
In Crittenden & Livingston Counties
Monday through Friday
8:00 AM to 4:30 PM
call
1-877-597-2331       or     1-270-388-4818
after hours / weekends
1-800-882-2873 or local law enforcement
24/hr 7day/week local helpline
Pennyroyal Hotline
1-877-473-7766

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Department for Community
Based Services in Marion, Ky.

Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community Safe Home

 Donation Needed for a Safe Home for Abused Women
Crittenden County Coalition for a Safe Home
PO Box 22, Marion, KY 42064
 Donations Welcome, Send Donations to:
Crittenden County Coalition for a Safe Home
PO Box 22, Marion, KY 42064

Write a Check Monthly and Help Someone Near You

A student - A friend - A Family Member - A Neighbor

A student - A friend - A Family Member - A Neighbor

A student - A friend - A Family Member - A Neighbor

A student - A friend - A Family
Member - A Neighbor

A student - A friend - A Family
Member - A Neighbor

Crittenden County Coalition
for a Drug-Free Community

Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community

Too Smart To Start
The Too Smart To Start Web site helps youth, families, educators, and communities prevent underage alcohol use and its related problems. It provides useful programs and strategies, downloadable materials, interactive games and exercises, and other resources to support you in responding to The Surgeon General's Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking.

Kentucky Cabinet For Health and Family Services Department for Community Based Services

Department for Community Based Services

This Building is across from Nu-U Beauty Salon and next door to Liberty Fuels
Pennyroyal Center has been operating out of DCBS in Marion for a number
of years. The office is at 815 S. Main St., (large red brick building).
Phone 270 965 2254
Fax 270 965 2424. 
Jeff Daughtery (Mental Health Issues) and Thyra Futtrell
(Drug Court and Substance Abuse Counseling) provide services in addition to
Sylvia McCarty who works at the schools. The Princeton Clinic can be reached
at 270 365 2008 and is located on US Hghwy 62 W. The Center
has been providing services continually.
Map of Area
Marion, Kentucky
815 S. Main St.
Marion, Ky. 42064

Links

Pennyroyal Center is a comprehensive Community Mental Health Center offering services in Mental Health, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse. Pennyroyal Center has four full-service clinics covering the eight county Pennyroyal Region of Western Kentucky..

Regional Substance Abuse Therapist
Telephone 270 994 8997
 
 The The KY-ASAP Connection Newsletter
The Kentucky Agency for Substance Abuse Policy produces a quarterly newsletter, The ASAP Connection, with information on funding opportunities, substance abuse prevention activities, and important contact information. For recent editions of the newsletter, click here.
Former Governor Martha Layne Collins, established Champions Coalitions in Kentucky 20 years ago.

Champions for a Drug-Free Kentucky
 
Anti-Drug Community Coalitions
CADCA
When it comes to preventing drug and alcohol abuse, there is no one-fits-all approach. It takes solutions that are based on a community’s unique problems and circumstances. That’s why, since 1992 Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) has been training local grassroots groups, known as community anti-drug coalitions, in effective community problem-solving strategies, teaching them how to assess their local substance abuse-related problems and develop a comprehensive plan to address them. Today, CADCA is the nation’s leading drug abuse prevention organization, representing the interests of more than 5,000 community anti-drug coalitions in the country.

Lyon County Champions Coalition 
The mission of Lyon County Champions Coalition is to promote the prevention of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse, and violence in Lyon County youth.

Bully Free - Allan L. Beane, Ph.D
 
KIP
The Kentucky Incentives for Prevention (KIP) Survey has been administered in Kentucky for a number of years by individual school districts across the state through agreements with the Substance Abuse Prevention Program. 

Social Host
Our mission is to prevent underage drinking by changing the social, legal and commercial environments in which alcohol is made available and/or desirable to young people. 

Pennyrile Drug Task Force.
 
Pennyrile Drug Task Force. Forums
 
Ghost Out
 
Life Skills 4 Kids
 
Masonic Model
 
Masonic Model Student Assistance Program Training for Teachers
June   9 - 11   2008                 Madisonville                   606-643-5050
 
Another Way@MySpace
 
Download our two page Brochure
 
Kentucky Quit Smoking Brochure
Many people who use tobacco want to quit. By calling Kentucky’s Tobacco Quit Line, you
are one step closer to becoming tobacco free.
 WHEN CAN I CALL?
Kentuckians can call 1-800-784-8669 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. (EST) Monday through Friday.
(24-hour voice mail, we’ll call you back)
 
 Help - A student - A friend - A Family Member - A Neighbor  

The Offical Website of the City of Marion, Ky
 
City of  Marion Tourism Commission
 
Crittenden County Chamber of Commerce
 
County, City, State and Federal Officials
 
Local Newspaper The Crittenden Press
Crittenden Health Systems
Local  Attorneys
           FRAZER, PEEK and ROGERS LAW OFFICE
 
           REBECCA  JOHNSON  LAW OFFICE
 
           STOUT LAW OFFICE 

Drugs in Crittenden County

Most of us know someone with a drug or alcohol abuse problem. The numbers in Crittenden Co. show just how widespread the problem is here.
Adults - each year approx. 95% of court cases in Crittenden Co. involve drugs or alcohol.
Children - Over the last 6 years the Coalition has surveyed the high school and middle school with a KIP survey three times, which queries the students on drug and alcohol use. In almost every category, substance abuse by Crittenden Co. students is higher than the numbers for the region, state and nation.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO NEXT

• Medical Detox - If a loved one wants help, overdoses or is arrested, he/she will either detox in jail, without medical assistance, or in a hospital with personnel who are usually untrained to help with detox. He/she will likely suffer, perhaps unnecessarily, and could even die.
• More Residential Treatment - Most often a residential program is 30 days and is grossly insufficient as well as a waste of time and money unless it is combined with local services. Residential treatment is a vital treatment requirement for those severely addicted. However, everyday in the state of Kentucky, we are short 300 treatment beds, meaning those who want or need help may wait weeks or months for help.
• Assistance Programs - Coordination of assistance programs with mental health services and drug and alcohol treatment facilities to provide food, clothing, housing, and health care.
 More Funding to Local Facilities 
• Write a Check Monthly and Help Someone Near You
A student - A friend - A Family Member - A Neighbor
Send Donations today to:
Crittenden County Coalition
PO Box 22, Marion, KY 42064

WHAT WE HAVE DONE SO FAR

 • Sponsoring KIP surveys to students regarding drug and alcohol abuse & sponsoring community forum to discuss the results.
• Drug Court in Crittenden County, residential, if needed, and highly structured intensive outpatient treatment, along with aftercare.
• Providing Funds for treatment and transportation to treatment.
• Educational Forums for parents and the community with the Pennyroyal Drug Task Force.
• Providing Support for Ghost Out program at CCHS and 4-H's participation in drug abuse educationa leadership programs.
• Supporting Emmanuel's Celebration Recovery & Parenting Classes & Lifeskills for Children
 
• Supporting Masonic Model training, a progran designed to identify at-risk students and train middle school teachers to teach life skills to students (program to begins this fall).
• Pennyroyal Hotline: 1-877-473-7766
• Created this web site to inform the nation, Western Kentucky and this community about the Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community.
 
 

Meetings

2010

Crittenden County Coalition for a Drug-Free Community 

Meetings at the Crittenden Health Systems Education Classroom 

(modular bldg. behind hospital).

Click to See Map to Location.

January 11th at 6:30pm   -              February no meeting  

March 8th at 6:30pm       -              April no meeting

May 10th at 6:30pm      -                June no meeting     

July 12th at 6:30pm      -                 August no meeting 

September 13th at 6:30pm -           October no meeting   

November 8th at 6:30pm  -            December no meeting 

Who We Are?

Drugs are a serious problem in every community. The Commonwealth of Kentucky has allocated funds to help provide services to communities for those with drug and alcohol addictions. In order for those funds to be received and disbursed, a local board must be formed to make decision for what programs the community needs. Therefore, Crittenden Co. has the local KY ASAP Board (Agency for Substance Abuse Policy), which receives money from the state's tobacco settlement each year. The KY-ASAP board is mandated to have 8 members from health, law enforcement, government and school professions and then 8 community members. The KY-ASAP board has three emphases: prevention, education and treatment. Crittenden Co. also has Champions, a state sponsored organization, aimed at youth prevention and education about substance abuse. This state organization is also state regulated and is funded through grant applications. Finally, as a local board, we saw an opportunity to raise money on our own that we could set aside for certain programs and projects which might be outside the range of the two state sponsored organizations. Therefore, the Coalition, is not only a collaboration of KY-ASAP and Champions, but is also a community organization on its own.