RED RIBBON WEEK 

 

2009 Red Ribbon Week Schedule

Monday - Hand out ribbons & put up 'I'm Drug Free' Banner for students to sign

Tuesday- Begin passing out candy

Wednesday- Wear Red Day

Thursday- Putting red ribbons on cars

Friday- No planned activity

  The purpose of the Red Ribbon Week Campaign is to make an open commitment to a safe, healthy & drug-free life. The campaign is designed to accomplish the following:

  • create awareness concerning the problems related to the use of tobacco, alcohol and other drugs
  • support the decision to live a healthy, drug-free lifestyle.

Red Ribbon Week began in 1988 to honor DEA Agent Enrique Camarena, who was kidnapped & killed in Mexico in 1985. Agent Camarena had uncovered a multi-billion dollar drug scam in which he suspected officers of the Mexican Army, police forces & government. As he left his office one day, 5 men appeared & kidnapped him. His body was found 1 month later in  a shallow  grave; he had been tortured & beaten.

The first Red Ribbon Week was pro-claimed in 1988 by the U.S. Congress in support  of Agent Camarena and the cause he gave his life for-combating drugs.The week is marked by wearing a red ribbon  to send the message to be drug & alcohol free!

 

During Red Ribbon Week, SADD members pass out red ribbons to students at the school. Wearing the ribbons shows students are making the choice to be drug & alcohol free. Each day after passing out ribbons, SADD members go around as the "Red Ribbon Patrol" & hand out candy to students still wearing their ribbons.

 Red Ribbon Week Fast Facts:

  • 50 people a day, and almost 18,000 a year die from accidents caused by alcohol
  • More than 100,000 U.S. deaths are caused by excessive alcohol consumption each year.
  • Males are four times as likely as females to be heavy drinkers.
  • Traffic crashes are the greatest single cause of death for people 6–33. About 45% of these fatalities are in alcohol-related crashes.
  • 65% of people arrested for marijuana-related crimes is for possession
  • Nearly half of drug-related ER visits are due to cocaine abuse
  • 141 million people around the world use marijuana. this is about 2.5% ot the world's population
  • Each year, students spend $5.5 billion on alcohol. That is more than they spend on soft drinks, coffee, tea, books, milk, and juice combined.
  • Underage drinking costs the U.S. more than $58 billion each year

 
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