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The Growing Popularity of Club Drugs Beyond the Night Club Scene Date: September 29, 2005, 1:00 – 2:30 PM Read TranscriptAcross the country, the use of club drugs such as ecstasy and methamphetamines is increasing—both in and out of the club setting. This interactive, audioconference will focus on trends and patterns of use, and variables such as price, policy, and enforcement that influence these patterns. Participants will learn about innovative prevention approaches that law enforcement and local prevention providers have taken to curtail ecstasy and methamphetamine use, including education, policy change and enforcement initiatives. Key steps for collaboration between law enforcement and prevention will also be discussed. This course will be facilitated by Detective Donald Ingrasselino police detective for the State of New Jersey and a detective for the
Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force; Yvonne
Stroman, Director of Community Partnership Programs for the Community
Prevention Partnership of Berks County, PA; and Carlos Pavão,Training
and Technical Assistance Manager for CSAP's Northeast CAPT. Course Objectives: During this audioconference, participants will
explore: Course Agenda: During this audioconference, participants
will explore: Donald Ingrasselino is a police detective for the State of New Jersey and a detective for the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force. Prior to this, he was a Federal Law Enforcement Officer and an Enforcement Officer at the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service. This assignment included apprehending violators of immigration laws, prisoner escort, foreign deportation, and handling special operations within New Jersey for the Special Response Team. During his tenure with the Bergen County Narcotics Task Force, he worked in an undercover capacity, where he personally purchased controlled dangerous substances and monitored conversations by members of the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office Narcotics Task Force while they made undercover purchases of controlled dangerous substances. He has participated in over 900 investigations that have led to arrests of individuals for violations of federal laws, including the Controlled Dangerous Substance Act of New Jersey and the Comprehensive Drug Reform Act of 1987. Detective Ingrasselino is a graduate of Seton Hall University, where he received a Bachelor of Arts in criminal justice, a graduate certificate in law and justice management, and a Masters degree in public administration. Yvonne Stroman has spent her professional career working with children and families. She currently serves as the director of Community Partnership Programs for the Community Prevention Partnership of Berks County, a community-based, non-profit prevention organization located in Reading, Pennsylvania. Her field of expertise includes an emphasis on substance abuse prevention. She coordinates the Ecstasy Prevention Project, the Drug-Free Communities Initiative, the Tobacco Cessation Project, and the Underage Drinking Coalition. Additionally, she serves as the coordinator of a program for grandparents raising their grandchildren, coordinator of training for those working in youth-serving agencies, local coordinator for the Pennsylvania Minority Affairs Committee, member of the Domestic Violence Council, and school board member. She is also a member of the Mayor’s Community Council, and a member of a special emphasis committee of the United Way. Carlos Pavão is a Training & Technical Assistance Manager with CSAP's Northeast CAPT. He has over eight years of coalition development, community organizing, school reform, youth development, governmental relations, program analysis, and systems building experience, and particular interest in developing strategies for reaching multicultural and newcomer populations. Mr. Pavão has also worked extensively on public health promotion and outreach efforts, including tobacco, HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, cardiovascular, pediatric obesity and nutrition. Mr. Pavão has an MPA from Bridgewater State College and a BA in anthropology and history, with a concentration in non-western cultures, from Brandeis University. Resources: Brecht, Mary-Lynn, O’Brien, Ann, von Mayrhauser, Christina, Anglin,
M. Douglas. (2004) Methamphetamine use behaviors and gender differences.
Addictive Behaviors, 29, 89-106. Yacoubian, George S., Miller, Sarah, Pianim, Selwyn, Kunz, Michael,
Orrick, Erin, Link, Tanja, Palacios, Wilson R., Peters, Ronald J. (2004)
Toward an ecstasy and other club drug (EOCD) prevention intervention
for rave attendees. Journal of Drug Education, 34 (1), 41-59. http://captus.samhsa.gov/northeast/PDF/ecstasy/prevention_2.pdf Boyd, C. J., McCabe, S. E., D’Arcy, H. (2003). Ecstasy use among
college undergraduates: Gender, race, and sexual identity. Journal
of Substance Abuse Treatment, 24, 209-215. http://captus.samhsa.gov/northeast/pdf/ecstasy_youth.pdf Rosenbaum, Marsha. (2002) Ecstasy: America’s new “reefer madness”. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 34 (2), 1-9. http://captus.samhsa.gov/northeast/pdf/ecstacy/e_reefer_madness_2.pdf Maxwell, Jane Carlisle. (2003) The response to club drug use. Current
Opinion in Psychiatry, 16, 279-289. Spruit, Inge P. (1999) Ecstasy use and policy responses in The Netherlands.
The Journal of Drug Issues, 29 (3), 653-678. Contact Information: |
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