News & Events
Much of our work involves measuring the difference others make. Getting involved and making our own difference is also an important part of who we are as individuals and as an organization.
The IASIC board of directors would like to thank our Expert Physician Council, Expert Affiliate Council and Donors for your support in creating IASIC and contributing to a successful first year. We could not have achieved what we did without you. A heartful thank you to all of you as we reflect on 2021 and share some of our accomplishments.
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The Sacramento County Coalition for Youth presents the Sacramento County Prevention Summit: bringing together educators, parents, prevention & treatment providers, community agencies, medical professionals, law enforcement and community members to educate and build capacity around youth substance use prevention. The summit will feature keynotes and workshops from state and national experts, perspectives from local leaders and educational opportunities focused on recreational marijuana normalization, current trends in youth substance use and strategies designed to limit youth access in our community.
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Rocky Mountain Poison Center is issuing a warning for parents following a recent cluster of adolescents overdosing on opioids.
“One of the things we have noticed recently is we have gotten a fair number of calls to our poison center for young people, adolescents, who have been experimenting with vaping fentanyl,” Dr. Christopher Hoyte said.
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The MPI most recently formed a partnership with local doctors and pharmacies to provide education to the community on potential drug interactions between marijuana and medications (both prescribed and over the counter). Seventeen local pharmacies are participating in the consumer protections project and are distributing informational resources to patients receiving prescriptions. Preliminary data from the program shows high levels of interest from patients to receive information on potential adverse effects.
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However, newly published data shows Ontario is still seeing nine times more ER visits for cannabis poisonings in young children. A third of those cases required further hospitalization, and in 4% of those cases, children were admitted to the ICU.
"The industry has evolved to have much stronger, more potent products and these edible products are no exception," said Dr. Sam Wang, a pediatric ER physician at Children's Hospital Colorado. "Kids can get into a lot of THC in these products, and so they can have more profound symptoms, including sedation, coma. We've seen kids with low oxygen because their breathing is low."
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