gov. Following review by NQF members and the
general public, NQF members will vote on whether to forward the measures and
recommendations to the NQF Board of Directors for its endorsement as voluntary
consensus standards.qualityforum.

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oas . Department of Health and
Human Services, is the lead federal agency for improving the quality and
availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental
health services in the United States.

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Governor James Aiona, Hawaii, are all scheduled to teach the underage
drinking curriculum. In 2004, Reach Out Now
materials were distributed to over 300,000 classrooms nationwide .

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The
materials were developed by SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention
(CSAP) and Scholastic , Inc.

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That is the conclusion
of a new analysis by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA). SAMHSA's Treatment Episode Data Set defines
age of first use for alcohol as the age of first intoxication. There were 16 percent
who initiated alcohol use between ages 18 and 20 and 12 percent who were
younger than age 12 when first intoxicated.gov. The measures
being recommended are part of the 2005 update to the NQF voluntary consensus
standards for adult diabetes care.

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, and were based on research supported by the
National Institutes of Health's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and
Alcoholism and SAMHSA.

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The public/private partnership allows SAMHSA to merge
its knowledge about underage drinking prevention with Scholastic, Inc.,
Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, the National Family Partnership,
National Association of State Drug and Alcohol Abuse Directors, National
Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence and the Benevolent Protective Order
of Elks. The drafts and additional
information on NQF can be found on the NQF web site,
http: //www.

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Most in Treatment for Alcohol Abuse Started Drinking Early; Classroom Programs April 18-22 Will Teach Pre-Teens Not to Start; Hawaii's Lt. Governor James Aiona

Public figures, including the first ladies of states, will go into
classrooms in their states to teach the anti-underage drinking message.

SAMHSA, a public health agency within the U.
Comments from the public are due by close of business, March 4, 2005, and
from NQF members by close of business, March 11, 2005 . Visit the NQF on the web at http://www.

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National Quality Forum Diabetes Taxonomy Draft Reports Available for Review and Comment

Three additional community-level measures
developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality also are
recommended.

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He pointed out that "those who used alcohol prior to age 12 were more
likely than all others to have had five or more prior treatment episodes.org.

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In 2002, 57 percent of primary alcohol admissions ages 21 or older
were admitted to treatment for alcohol alone while 43 percent reported abusing
alcohol and drugs.

The NQF is a private, not-for-profit, public benefit corporation created
in 1999 to develop and implement a national strategy for healthcare quality
measurement and reporting.

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The Diabetes draft is an update of a report NQF released in 2002,
"National Voluntary Consensus Standards for Adult Diabetes Care," listing 37
endorsed measures for quality improvement and accountability; these measures
were developed by the National Diabetes Quality Improvement Alliance and its
predecessor organizations.

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SAMHSA found that among those persons ages 21 and
older admitted to treatment for alcohol dependence or abuse in 2002, 88
percent were first intoxicated before age 21. The SAMHSA materials, provided to fifth and sixth
grade teachers, contain resources to educate youngsters, before they become
teens, about the dangers to young bodies associated with drinking alcohol.
With the help of the governors' spouses and our partners we are reaching out
to classrooms nationwide to prevent the early use of alcohol and delay the age
of initiation.

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The new SAMHSA report is available on the web at
http://www.qualityforum.

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, on the Reach Out Now initiative to
educate students in fifth and sixth grade classrooms nationwide on the dangers
of underage alcohol use, with a program that includes teach-ins April 18
through 22 in every state. Three first ladies, Mary Perdue of Georgia, Anita Perry
of Texas and Barbara Richardson of New Mexico are writing newspaper op-eds .
"While we know that the majority of youth do not drink, research tells us
that people who start drinking at early ages are more likely to have problems
with alcohol as adults," said Charles Curie, Administrator of SAMHSA."
The SAMHSA data on who is in treatment for alcohol abuse and dependence is
extracted from the Treatment Episode Data Set 2002.
This is the fourth year of Reach Out Now. The guide urges
parents to establish and maintain good communications with their children; get
involved in your child's life; make clear rules and enforce them with
consistence and appropriate consequences; be a positive role model; teach
children to choose friends wisely; and monitor the activities of your
children.
These drafts are currently being reviewed by the more than 250 NQF member
organizations, which include consumer groups, purchasers, payers, healthcare
providers, and government agencies.

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To combat continuation of this pattern of abuse of alcohol by young teens,
SAMHSA has teamed up with Scholastic, Inc. First ladies Patsy Riley,
Alabama; Nancy Murkowski, Alaska; Janet Huckabee, Arkansas; Columba Bush,
Florida; Karen Baldacci, Maine; Mary Easley, North Carolina; Hope Taft, Ohio;
Mary Oberst; Oregon; Mary Kaye Huntsman, Utah; and Nancy Freudenthal, Wyoming;
and Lt.

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A Family Resource Guide is part of the school program. Reach Out Now materials and more information about
the teach-ins are available on the web at http://www.
Recommended for endorsement is the Patient Safety Event Taxonomy, a high-level
taxonomy developed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations that can be used to structure data aggregation and information
across local or more specific reporting systems; standardized definitions and
domains; and additional recommendations.

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Of those in treatment for alcohol abuse or dependence, 35 percent were
first intoxicated at ages 15-17.

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There
will be at least one teach-in in every state. Established as a unique public-private
partnership, the NQF has broad participation from all sectors of the
healthcare industry.

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Partnering with SAMHSA in the effort are MADD, Pride Youth Program, Inc.samhsa.

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"These
new SAMHSA data confirm that the vast majority of those in treatment for
alcohol misuse had an early initiation into intoxication.
The Taxonomy draft represents the nation's first effort to organize,
classify, and code patient safety information in a standardized fashion.org.

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These data indicate that
those admitted to treatment with an age of first use of alcohol younger than
15 years old were more likely to report both alcohol and drug use upon
admission than those who reported their age of first use of alcohol as 15 or
older. WASHINGTON, The National Quality Forum (NQF ) today
announced the availability of two draft consensus reports, "National Voluntary
Consensus Standards for Adult Diabetes Care: 2005 Update" and "Standardizing a
Patient Safety Taxonomy," for pre-voting review.

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WASHINGTON, Early alcohol intoxication can lead
to a need for substance abuse treatment later in life. The new SAMHSA
report, "Characteristics of Primary Alcohol Admissions by Age of First Use of
Alcohol: 2002" shows that a quarter of the 683,000 admissions to treatment
ages 21 and older began drinking between ages 12-14.
In January 2005, the Alliance approved an updated set of performance
measures for adult diabetes care containing 54 measures for public reporting
and quality improvement at the health plan and provider level.

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All are members of the Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free, an
organization of governors' spouses, federal agencies and public and private
organizations.'s
reputation for excellence in the development of classroom materials.