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is a social awareness campaign created under the "Drug-Free Highlands" umbrella. DFH was organized as a community coalition in 2003 due to increasing youth substance abuse rates.
As approved by the Board of Directors in 2008, our mission is to organize, inform, educate, and unite our community in its efforts to reduce substance abuse.
In 2010, DFH shifted its focus toward prevention strategies, including providing information, social marketing campaigns, community prevention events, offering training to community members, and mobilizing law enforcement to do compliance checks and enforce existing laws, policies, and procedures.
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HEALTH ASSESSMENT
According to the Florida Department of Health:
"Substance Use & Misuse is a health topic that is analyzed from two secondary data health topics: Alcohol & Drug Use and Tobacco Use. From the secondary data scoring results, Alcohol & Drug Use ranked 20th and Tobacco Use ranked 16th among all topic areas, with scores of 1.42 52 and 1.59 respectively. Further analysis was done to identify specific indicators of concern. Those indicators with high data scores (scoring at or above the threshold of 1.70) were categorized as indicators of concern.
From the secondary data results, there are several indicators within the Alcohol and Drug Use health topic that raise concerns for Highlands County. The poorest performing indicator under this health topic is the Age-Adjusted Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Death Rate. This indicator shows the age-adjusted drug and opioids-involved death rate. Age-Adjusted Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Death rate in Highlands County is 35.4 deaths/100,000 population and is higher compared to both state of Florida and U.S. rates of 27.8 and 23.5 respectively. Secondly, the indicator Death Rate due to Drug Poisoning for Highlands County is 28.6 deaths/100,000 population, which is higher than both the state of Florida at 26.7 and the U.S. at 53 23.0. The indicator Teens who have Used Methamphetamines is also higher in Highlands County, at 1.6%, compared to Florida at 0.8%. Finally, the indicator Alcohol-Impaired Driving Deaths is higher in Highlands County at 27.7% when compared to the Healthy People 2030 goal of 28.3%. It is also higher compared to that of the state of Florida at 22.0% and the U.S. at 27.0%.
