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<p class="black_content">Volume 2 | Issue 1 | Autumn
2006</p>
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<font face="Arial"><span lang="EN" style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: EN">This Autumn
Issue provides an update on our project evaluating
random student drug testing. It also
introduces our newest staff member, and discusses
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Learn About TWG�s Work With Random Student Drug
Testing in High Schools in New Jersey</a></div></td>
<td width="146"><div align="center"><a href="#John Moulden"><img border="0" src="issue_2.jpg" width="49" height="62"><br>
Meet the Newest Member of TWG�s Team</a></div></td>
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Details About How TWG Is Helping To Set Standards for
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<td width="407"><p align="center" class="welcome_header style9"><a name="Evaluating">Evaluating</a>
random student drug testing in high schools</p>
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The Walsh Group (TWG) has just completed the
third year of a research project evaluating
the effectiveness of random drug testing (RDT)
to reduce drug use by high school students.
Three public high schools in New Jersey, with a
total population of over six thousand
students, are participating in the research
(Hunterdon Central Regional High School, North
Hunterdon High School, and Voorhees High
School). The study is funded by the U.S.
Department of Education.</span></font></p>
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schools� random testing policies are
designed to be therapeutic rather than
punitive. The regional boards of
education have created a policy where
participation in school-sponsored athletics or
competitive extracurricular activities is
contingent on participation in the random
testing program. Students can also volunteer
to participate in the program, which runs
throughout the year. </span></font><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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If a student fails a random drug test, the
student�s parents are notified, meetings
with the school student assistance counselor
are arranged, and the student may not
participate in extracurricular activities
until he/she has successfully completed
required drug education and counseling
sessions and passed a follow-up drug test.
Students do not miss any classes, and may
resume extracurricular activities when the
prerequisites are met. The goal is to
deter use and identify </font></span></font></p>
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drugs so they can get the necessary help. </font></span></font></p>
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All test results are confidential and do not
appear on the student's permanent record.</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 4.5pt; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 1" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font color="#000000">
The RDT programs
have run smoothly at all three participating
schools and are now an accepted part of the
normal course of business. There
have been no problems or complaints and there
has been no evidence that students have
stopped participating in athletics or
extracurricular activities in order to avoid
being in the RDT pool.</font><o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 1" align="left"><font face="Arial"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="2"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">
</span></font></span></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="2" color="#000000" face="Arial">The
preliminary results from this complicated
study are quite promising. We have found
positive correlations between being in the RDT
pool and lower rates of drug use; however, we
cannot impute causality at this time.
More data is needed.<o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 1" align="left"><font face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The
study�s preliminary results have also
brought some other interesting things to
light. There is strong evidence that
student drug use patterns change over the
course of the school year, and that the
greatest rates of drug-use increases are among
the freshman and sophomore classes as they
assimilate into the high school culture.
</span></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><o:p>
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</span><font color="#000000">Both of these
patterns have important implications for the
design and implementation of RDT and other
prevention programs. The Department of
Education has now extended the study for a
fourth year so that TWG can gather more data
on the impact of RDT programs on student drug
use as well as further investigate seasonal
variations in student drug use and high school
socialization.</font></span></font><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt"></o:p>
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Drug Testing aims to get students</font></i></div><div align="center">
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treatment, not trouble</font></i></div><div align="center">
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<h2 style="word-spacing: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0"><a name="John Moulden"><span class="welcome_header style11">john
</span></a><span class="welcome_header style11">
moulden joins the walsh group</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 12.0pt; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; mso-pagination: none; margin-top: 1; margin-bottom: 1"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span lang="EN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN">
The Walsh Group announces the addition of its newest staff member: Mr.
John Moulden, former President of the National Commission on Alcohol and
Drug Driving (NCADD).<o:p>
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</span>Mr. Moulden has over 33 years of professional experience in the
field of highway safety in the public and private sectors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>He has served as Special Assistant to the Chairman and
Transportation Safety Specialist, National Transportation Safety Board;
as a Research Psychologist, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, and as the President of the NCADD. Mr. Moulden also
served on the National Board of Directors of Mothers Against Drunk
Driving, and was elected as MADD�s first Vice President for Public
Policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span></span></font><span lang="EN" style="mso-bidi-font-size:9.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN"></o:p>
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<p align="center"> <span class="welcome_header style11"><a name="Setting the Standards">setting
the standards</a> </span><br>
<i><font color="#0033CC"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">TWG
Hosts Drugged-Driving Experts Meeting in Talloires, France</span>
communities</span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA" lang="EN">.</span></font><span lang="EN" style="font-family:Arial;color:#84A481;mso-ansi-language:EN"></o:p>
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</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: Times New Roman; color: #212120; mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA"><font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">A
major problem in assessing the impact of drugs on driving is the fact
that the variables being measured across studies vary significantly.
In studies being reported in a growing literature the basic parameters
being assessed, the analytical techniques being used, and the drugs
being testing for, are simply not comparable due to a lack of
standardization in the field. <o:p>
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In early September, The Walsh Group organized and hosted a 4-day meeting
of experts in �Drugged Driving� research. The international
experts in attendance represented nine countries and three continents.
The meeting was co-sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
The European Commission, The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs &
Drug Addiction, The International Council on Alcohol, Drugs and Traffic
Safety, The International Association of Forensic Toxicologists, and the
French Society of Analytical Toxicologists. The meeting was held at the
Tufts University European Center in Talloires, France.</span></font>
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goal of the meeting was to develop a set of standards for �Drugged
Driving� research designed to insure the comparability of data from
country to country. Recently, the European Commission has funded a
4-year / 25M Euro research project, Project DRUID [Driving Under the
Influence of Drugs]. This project involves some 40 research teams in 17
different countries, and standardization of data collection is
imperative. The product from the Talloires meeting is a draft
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Utilizing the Delphi Method, the draft document will be posted on the
ICADTS and TIAFT websites where comments will be solicited from the
greater drug-impaired driving research community. It is
anticipated that the final version of the Standards Document will be
available for distribution at the joint TIAFT/ICADTS meeting in August
2007 in Seattle.</font></span>
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Abuse Research [CESAR] recently hosted a meeting of
former Drug Czars on the 35<sup>th</sup> Anniversary
of the appointment of the first Drug Czar, Dr. Jerry
Jaffe (advisor to President Nixon).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; color: white">
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attended and spoke about their experiences and
thoughts about the successes and failures of
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</span>Dr. Walsh was invited to the meeting to speak
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a panel with Sally Satel, Mark Kleiman, John Ball,
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Toxicologists (SOFT) Meeting, on October 5<sup>th </sup>in
Austin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes; color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN">
</span>The poster, titled �Evaluating Workplace
Testing Results from a Medical Review Officer Data
Source�, presented work from a collaborative
effort with Research Triangle International (RTI)
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Recovery: Mutual-aid support groups & the use
of the Internet</span>�<span lang="EN" style="color: white; mso-ansi-language: EN">
at the International Conference for Secular
Organizations for Sobriety (SOS) on November 18,
2006 in Los Angeles.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: white">
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of the Scientific Program for the Toxicology of
Alcohol, Drugs, & Traffic Safety Track of the
Joint ICADTS/TIAFT 2007 Meeting in Seattle.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:white;mso-ansi-language:
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