Leon county

Research & Information

The items on this page will remain as a repository of the documents disseminated by the RDMC. Additional items will be added as developed.

Research on Issues

• Costs of Underage Drinking In Florida
• Alcohol Use by Youth in Leon County

 

Surveys

• 2014 FYSAS Data for Florida
• 2014 FYSAS Data for Leon
• 2013 FYSAS Data for Florida
• 2012 FYSAS Data for Leon
• 2010 FYSAS Data for Leon
• 2011 Florida FYSAS Data Overview

Florida Collegiate Success Initiative Project

Information concerning the Leon RDMC CSI Project is featured below. Access the links for more information.

• Project overview
• Project Causal Model
• Project Logic Model
• Florida CSI Project Overview
• Leon RDMC CSI Final Summative Evaluation Report
• Updated EUDL Report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Topical Informational Items

Alcoholic Energy Drink Blamed for Sickening College Students

• The Food and Drug Administration issued warning letters Wednesday to four manufacturers of alcoholic energy drinks often consumed by college students, saying the caffeine added to their beverages is an "unsafe food additive.

DEA to Ban "Synthetic Marijuana"

• The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has enacted an emergency ban on five synthetic marijuana chemicals.

National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

• The US DEA has scheduled another National Prescription Drug Take Back Day which will take place on Saturday, October 29, 2011, from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm

New Ways for Teens to Binge

• Teens are finding new--and more dangerous--ways to binge. Here's what you can do.read more

'Not Your Parents' Pot

• As marijuana use is increasing, so is its potency -- and health educators struggle with how to address it. Click here to read more ...

Adolescent Substance Use: America's @1 Public Health Problem

• CASA’s new national study declares teen smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs a public health problem of epidemic proportions. The report reviews current knowledge of the science of addiction as a complex brain disease with origins in adolescence, documents how adolescence is the critical period for the initiation of substance use, and reveals the enormous and costly health and social consequences of teen substance use.
• Download and read the report (pdf)
• Download and view the slides (pdf)