National Drug Facts Week

WHEREAS, National Drug Facts Week is sponsored by the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health, in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in accordance with other federal private partner organizations, to encourage teens to ask questions about drugs and drug abuse an receive scientifically based facts and answers in return; and

WHEREAS, National Drug Facts Week will be a seven day celebration, anchored by NIDA’s National Drug Facts Chat Day, an annual event that provides high school students across the United States with the opportunity to ask questions of the nation’s leading experts in the field of drug abuse and addiction via a web chat; and

WHEREAS, National Drug Facts Week is a celebration of the inquisitive minds of teenagers and encourages them to ask questions about drugs and drug abuse and get scientifically based answers, without judgment or biased comment; and

WHEREAS, National Drug Facts Week celebrates the efforts of national and community organizations working with teens to encourage this science based conversation about drugs and drug abuse; and

WHEREAS, Community Partners of the Drug Education Council have chosen to officially recognize National Drug Facts Week with the Prescription Drug Abuse Summit with the intent to define prescription drug abuse, raise awareness of this growing challenge among our youth and identify effective resources to reduce this abuse:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Robert Bentley, Governor of Alabama, do hereby proclaim the week of January 28 through February 3, 2013, as

National Drug Facts Week

in the state of the Alabama.