Out of the Dark

TIME FOR CHANGE! Our communities are the foundation and heart of our society. Unhealthy communities, quite simply, create an unhealthy society. Drug addiction issues have become such a major burden to our communities that we can no longer consider these to be solely individual issues that have to be addressed locally by parents, grandparents and our local leaders. Because of our community's failure to learn how to address these problems, the resulting growth of addiction has been in the loss of many lives, the destruction of families, higher crime rates, higher unemployment which has placed an enormous drain on our economy and way of life. Our historical misunderstanding of drug addiction and the denial of this chronic illness has resulted in creating a growing dark hole in the heart of our community and it pervades our public consciousness. So what are YOU going to do about? The Out of the Dark Movement was founded in 2008 by several community volunteers in Jonesboro, Arkansas. Read more...
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Statewide Prevention Campaign. Out of the Dark and the Arkansas Drug Director’s Office will announce a new Prescription Drug Prevention Campaign this week. More info... JHS OD Chapter: The Jonesboro High School Out of the Dark Chapter is now on Facebook. Support our students in making our community a better place to live. Sign up here. New Local Partnership. The American Advertising Federation of Northeast Arkansas has announced that it has selected Out of the Dark Inc. for their 2010 pro bono support program! More info... Brookland Out of the Dark. Congratulations to Ms. Brandy Dunigan and the Brookland Out of the Dark at the Brookland Junior High School for creating their newsletter in honor of Red Ribbon Week. Read the newsletter... GREAT NEWS! CRDC-PRC has announced that all 32 school districts in Northeast Arkansas will be participating in the 2009 Arkansas Prevention Needs Assessment (APNA) Survey. Read the PRC fall newsletter... New PRESCRIPTION WARNING FORM to help local Medical Providers Read more...	Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State, and Local Budgets a new study report released on May 27, 2009, found that the Federal, State and Local Governments spend almost half a trillion dollars a year on substance abuse and addiction and that out of every dollar spent only 1.9 cents goes to prevention and treatment even though research has established that every dollar spent on quality treatment can deliver a return of $12.00 or more in reduced substance abuse-related criminal justice and health care costs. Read more... Heroin addiction spreads like wildfire. Russia has called on the United Nations to link the foreign troop presence in Afghanistan to an obligation to destroy poppy plantations. Read more... "Nationwide Alert" issued by SAMHSA on Cocaine use. Substantial levels of cocaine may be adulterated with levamisole – a veterinary anti-parasitic drug. Read more... The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that because of the increase in abuse of prescription opiates such as the painkillers Methadone, Oxycontin and Vicodin drug-related deaths have overtaken the number of traffic fatalities in 16 states. Read more... Arkansas is included in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2008 Report “Prescription Drug Overdose: State Health Agencies Respond”. Read more…
Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Decoding Cough Medicine Abuse Hour of Power Meetings Understanding METH Addiction Don't understand? Well why not? Read more... We like to share stories about how drugs affect our community. Read more...	People that have become involved with non violent illegal drug activity because of their ignorance of the risks of addiction need education and help, not a criminal record. It really does not matter anymore whether you believe that addiction is self imposed or a disease because the fact is that the results of this growing epidemic adversely affects all of us, either directly or indirectly. Visit our Support page HERE.
The Arkansas Prevention Needs Assessment Survey data is the most important and accurate information we have to determine the current trend of drug abuse in our community. Have you taken the time to look at what is going on in your community? Read more...	This past year Out of the Dark Inc. has established new Out of the Dark School Chapters in 7 out of 8 school districts plus the Success Academy. That you to our School Representatives for getting involved. You should get involved too! Read more...
Thank you to The National and Arkansas Elks Association Drug Awareness Program and our Out of the Dark Volunteers for bringing national speaker, Milton Creagh, to our community to speak to students and parents. Mr. Creagh left us all with very powerful and common sense approaches to drug awareness. Read More…
We need your ideas because we can not do this alone! VOLUNTEER TODAY on our STEP UP PAGE. Want to start an Out of the Dark Organization in your community? Contact us at outofthedark.org@gmail.com	Tired of drug dealers in our community. Well you can help by reporting drug activity! Read more... "STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFER INSIGHT" - new survery. In excess of 90% of respondents, "when asked: 'what are the emerging drug problems in your jurisdiction, in your state, and what do you see on the horizon as something we, as a nation, need to prepare for?', simply said: Prescription Drugs…the pills. Read more...