In the News
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PDFNJ Seeking Scripts for Television PSA Contest
Posted 2/26/2013
The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey is calling on New Jersey Middle School students to write, star and produce a television commercial with a substance abuse prevention message for their peers by entering the 14th Annual Middle School Public Service Announcement Challenge (MSPSA).
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Young People Across The World Vote In PDFNJ High School Drug Prevention Music Competition
Posted 2/21/2013
The NJSDD music competition is designed to allow high school teens throughout New Jersey to utilize their musical talents and writing ability to create original pieces that instill drug prevention messages to their peers and the New Jersey community.
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15 Minute Child Break presentation in Atlantic City seeks to educate parents about drugs
Posted 2/20/2013
The 15 Minute Child Break presentation by the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey educates parents and others raising children on how to talk about alcohol, drug and tobacco use.
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Statement of PDFNJ Supporting Revisions to the Parental Consent Law for Surveying of Students
Posted 2/12/2013
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Ex. Dir. Angelo Valente Contributes to NJ. Dept. of Education's Newsletter
Posted 1/15/2013
Alcohol use by our children is a significant problem in our state and across the country. As a father of three and the Executive Director of the Partnership for a Drug–Free New Jersey, (PDFNJ) for the past eighteen years, it is startling to realize that 46 percent of New Jersey children in the seventh and eighth grades have experimented with alcohol.
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30 Finalists Selected for the 2011-12 Verizon / PDFNJ Design a Folder Contest
Posted 12/21/2012
Thirty finalists were selected from over 7,500 artwork submitted from over 400 schools in the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey’s Fun Things to Do Instead of Drugs: Design a Fourth Grade Folder contest.
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Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey Mourns the Passing of Riley Regan
Posted 12/11/2012
MILLBURN -- The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) sadly mourns the passing of Riley Regan, the first Executive Director of the New Jersey Governor’s Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse (GCADA) and a lifelong, outspoken advocate for the field of substance abuse prevention and treatment.
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Parents More Important Than School in Preventing Use of Alcohol, Marijuana Use
Posted 12/6/2012
A new study concludes that parental involvement is more important than the school environment in preventing or limiting children’s use of alcohol or marijuana.
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Synthetic Marijuana Sent 11,000 People to Emergency Rooms in 2010
Posted 12/4/2012
More than 11,000 people ended up in emergency rooms after using synthetic marijuana in 2010, according to a new government report. Most were teenagers and young adults, USA Today reports.
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NJ Div. of Consumer Affairs’ Ban on Synthetic Marijuana is Now Permanent
Posted 11/26/2012
NEWARK – Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa today announced that New Jersey’s comprehensive ban on all variants of synthetic marijuana is now permanent, under a regulation formally adopted by the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.