UMaine to Host Friday Drug Prevention Conference
Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571; Lauri Sidelko at 581-1432
ORONO — Students, professional staff members and faculty members from Maine colleges and universities, along with their community partners, will visit the University of Maine on Friday March 31 for the 2006 Higher Education Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Conference. The conference, which begins with registration at 9 a.m., will be held in UMaine’s Memorial Union.
Programming begins at 9:45 a.m. with “Time to Save Lives!,” a keynote address by Paul Chabot, a former municipal and federal drug enforcement law officer who himself went through a drug rehab program as a young man. He will talk about trends in substance abuse and the need for social change and leadership to help solve the related problems.
Morning breakout sessions will focus on the increasing issues related to methamphetamine use and the ways in which student affairs professionals can work with law enforcement officers to reduce substance abuse and its effects on students and university communities. After lunch, breakout sessions will feature discussion of “Technology’s Impact on Student Substance Abuse and Related Risk Behaviors” and on trends in drug use, distribution and manufacturing.
The conference will end at 2:30 p.m. A full schedule is online at http://www.maineheapp.org/Library/whatsnew/upcoming1.html.