April 27, 2025 • 29 mins
The Oregon Humane Society needs you to sign up for Doggie Dash to help them raise money to care for animals. Portland's Cinco de Mayo is a celebration of Portland's Sister City Guadalajara. April is Alcohol Awareness Month and it's time to Rethink the Drink.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Local Voices. I'm brad Ford. The Oregon Humane
Society is getting ready for their big fundraiser, Doggie Dash Portland,
Sinco to Myles. Celebration will start May second. We'll get
a preview and April is Alcohol Awareness Month. We'll talk
with the Deputy State Health Officer to learn more about
Rethink the Drink. The Oregon Humane Societies Doggy Dash happens
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May tenth. Laura Clink with the Oregon Humane Society joins
us on Local Voices to tell us about it. Laura,
what happens at Doggy Dash.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, Doggy Dash is just this huge festival and celebration
of people and pets, and it is really one of
Portland's most beloved events. It takes place. This will be
our thirty eighth year at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland,
and we have so many exciting new things this year
for Doggy Dash.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We have a Doggy Dash in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Salem on June fourteenth, So you know, this is our
biggest and most important fundraising event of the year and
just a great opportunity to bring the community together and
celebrate our love for animals.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Now, some of the dog owners get really creative tell
us about some of the costumes.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, I tell you, you will not find a better place
to people watch and dog watch than Doggy Dash. So
my favorite we have a person who comes to the
Salem event who dresses up in a Hawaiian outfit and
he has this elderly chihuahua that he dresses similarly with
a let and a little hula skirt, and they are
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just adorable. We see so many great costumes, people that
are dressing like their dogs, people are dressing, you know,
in a theme or things like that. And one of
the really fun parts of this event too is all
the people that come back year after year after year.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Why is this event so important for the Humane Society?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, as I.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Mentioned before, Doggy Dash is Oregon Humane Society's largest fundraising
event of the year. So in addition to registering the event,
we also provide folks with the opportunity to fundraise.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And earn certain prizes.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And the dollars that are raised by our fundraisers and
by the community are really important for funding Orgon Humane
Societies life saving programs. So that includes pet adoption, that
includes accessible veterinary care at our community Veterinary hospital. We
have so many great services at our Salem campus, including
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spay and neuter services for community cats and also owned pets.
We also work with shelter partners all over Oregon through
our Second Chance program to transport those animals to organ
Humane Society for adoption.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We have a humane law enforcement team.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So the breadth of services at Oregon Humane Society is
a lot bigger than most people realize, and it takes
a lot of resources to keep all those services running
and we truly could not do it without our donors
and without the support of the community.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So how does a fundraising for doggy Dash work for participants?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So it's really easy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
When you register, you will get a series of emails
that instruct you on how to set up your own
fundraising page. And fundraising might sound really daunting to people,
but there are so many creative ways that you can
raise funds and help animals. We have people who will
have a garage sale and donate the proceeds to to
Doggy Dash.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We have folks who will you know who.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Maybe are really great cooks and like to make brownies
and sell those at their workplace. So when you register
for doggy Dash, we set you up for success by
giving you lots of great fundraising ideas a really easy
to use interactive tool to set up that page. We
encourage people to share why they're supporting Oregon Humane Society.
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Maybe you've adopted your pet from Orgon Humane Society, and
certainly with social media, there's a lot of opportunities to
share those stories of why Oregon Humane Society is important
to you and why you're supporting it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are there prizes, Yes, we have.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
A lot of really great prizes.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Year after year, our events team always comes up with
the most incredible prizes. So we have some of our
regular favorites like T shirts and sweatshirts. We have a
really full cross body bag that is for folks who
raise one hundred and fifty dollars or more. We have
we're working with Portland Gear this year and they are
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providing us with these really awesome Duffel bags. We have
blankets and then overnight stays at the coast and in
Central Oregon. But it's really important to just remember that
when folks are fundraising for the Oregon Humane Society, those
dollars are going towards saving lives, and that is at
our Portland campus and at our Salem campus, and this
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year we are really excited to have doggy Dash in
Salem as well. So folks, when you rea register for
doggy Dash, you can register for either Portland or Salem
or both. So we're calling those the double Dashers and
they are both such wonderful locations and events, and so
we are really encouraging folks to come join us at both.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Locations this year.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Double Dashers, that's great. How do you register?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So we have a really easy to use registration form
on our website at doggy dash dot org. And at
the website you will find everything about the various roots,
the pricing for young folks for double Dashers, kids tend
and under dash for free, which is great, and then
also some information about the all the incredible activities in Portland.
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We're really excited to partner with Subaru Portland at Salem
doggy Dash. The Marble Center is our title sponsor and
we're working with just dozens of local businesses to really
have a wonderful festival for folks to attend.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So for people who haven't been invol doggie Dash before,
do you have any advice for first time dashers?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, of course, like I mentioned I encourage folks to
double dash because the two events are just different but
so fun in their own unique way. So obviously, the
big festival at Waterfront Park has been happening for thirty
eight years in Salem, Oregon Humane Society merged in twenty
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twenty two with Willammett Humane Society. They had an event
down there called WILLELM. Mutt Strutt and we've rebranded it
Doggie Dash. But there's so many things that are wonderful
about that event that people in the Salem area have
grown accustomed to. The event takes place at Riverfront Park
and Salem, and if you've never been to Riverfront Park
in Salem, it's just a beautiful location. The route crosses
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two bridges and goes alongside the river and it's just
a beautiful location. Like I mentioned, we have local businesses
in our Salem community and in our Portland community who
will have.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, vendor booths.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
In Portland, we will have an agility demonstration, some frisbee dogs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We have School of Rock who will be.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Performing on the concert stage in Portland, and I that
is one of my favorite parts of this event because
to see these young people up there so talented sharing
their musical expertise with with folks, and I personally love
some of the retro songs that they play, so it
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you know, what people can expect at both events is
just this feeling of joy and excitement that we get
from being around animals and around a community that also
loves animals. There's nothing really quite like connecting with people
who share that love of animals, and Doggy Dash is
just a great opportunity.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To do just that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It is. It's such a fun event. Tell us the
website one more time where people can go to a register.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The website is doggy dash dot org and there's again
all the information about the routes, how to register, what
you'll find at each event. We're really excited about the
iHeartRadio contest stage. That is always really fun because some
of the contests are so fun and even if you
and your dog don't participate, you can come watch the
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contests and those.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Are super fun.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're so appreciative to iHeartRadio for your partnership and
helping to make this a really fun event for the community.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Laura, thanks for joining us on Local Voices.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's Laura clink with the Oregon Humane Society again. Doggie
Dash happens May tenth, and you can register right now
on the Oregon Humane Society's website. D on Senco to
Mayo celebration is May second through the fifth of Tom
McCall Waterfront Park. Brittany Hummel joins us on Local Voices, Brittany,
why do we celebrate sen go to Myyo?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So so you go to Mao? Started almost forty years
ago now when PGA, which is the Portland Guadalajara Sister
City Association PGSCA, for sure, they started the sister city
relationship back in nineteen eighty three and then a couple
years later started the Cinco de Mamyo Fiesta as a
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fundraising opportunity for their groups that they could go and
do things in the community and then also go to
Guadalajara and do things in the community. There.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Tell us more about Portland's connection to its sister city
in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, the PGCA goes to Guadalajara once or twice a
year and they go out there. They kind of help
in the schools, They help make sure that there is
support in learning the English language, just kind of do
as much as they can while they're out there, and
then obviously when they're here in the States, they do
as much as they can here as well. And we
bring out the mariachi every year from Guadalajara, and we
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also bring out twelve artisanos from Guadalajara to sell their
goods at Sinco de Mayo, So we try to help
support small businesses that are from our sister city as well.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So tell us more about what visitors can expect at
the celebration.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh man, there's so much. Every day of the fiesta
is different, Like you could come on Friday and it'll
be a completely different experience on Sunday. On Friday, we
have a lowrider car show that is coming through and
it is an organized group that has some really awesome cars.
I've seen them before, they're really cool. And then we
also have on Saturday and Sunday the Rip City Youth
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Amateur Boxing Tournament. We also have on Saturday and Sunday
the professional Lucha Libre boxing and then we also are
bringing the Portland Public Schools Latin X Choir this year,
which is a really cool new thing that we've added,
so you can come and support a local.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Choir now there's also an artists in village. What can
you tell us about that?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The artisan village is specifically the Artisato's from Guadalajara, So
there's about twelve of them that come over and they
are live making their goods in their boos while also
selling stuff that they have been working all year to
make just for this fiesta. And then on top of that,
in the merchandise area, we have vendors from all over
Oregon and Washington that are coming to sell their goods
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as well.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, that'll be fun to do some dropping tell us
about the Plaza de Plaza da a Ninos.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
This year is being ran by the Boy Scouts of America,
so they're going to be in there doing some different
activities and activations, really trying to connect closer with the
kids in the community and get a couple of kids
maybe signed up to be Boy Scouts.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How about the food. There's a big variety of food right, Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Man, there's so much food. There is just so much food.
You could do a whole tasting weekend every day try
something different, but there's so much to look forward to.
We have a Mexican flare on a baked potato. We
have pazzole, we have tortise. I mean, everything that you
could think of we have, and probably some things that
you would never think of eating we have.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I mean it's a lot of it's traditional Mexican food
that you don't normally get here.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yes, there is a lot of traditional Mexican food, but
then there's also some fun flares on, like American foods
that they've taken and made a little different, which I
think is really fun nice.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
How about the entertainment, I think you kind of touched
on it earlier, but what kind of entertainment's available.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well, the entertainment is very special this year. It's Tommy
Special every year. But I always enjoy watching the mariachi
and the ballet perform. Their performances are so beautiful, lots
of colors, lots of just amazing dancing, like they practice
for hours and hours every day and it is just
an incredible experience to watch. On top of that, we
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have some solo mariachi performances this year where they're going
to be. In the past, they've kind of been at
the back of the stage because they have the ballet
dancing in front of them, but we asked them to
do a couple solo performances, so they can be a
little closer to the front of the stage and you
get kind of a more up close and personal experience
with the mariachi, which is really a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It is i that would be fun to watch. What's
new this year, Well.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The Luja Libre is new this year. It hasn't been
around since pre COVID was the last time that they
had the Loocha doors, so this is the first year
in a while that we'll have the Lucha doors. We
also have the Lowrider Car Show, which we did do
last year, but it's still kind of new this year.
There's going to be more cars, it's going to be
a bigger space than what they had last time. And
then we also have an artist that is doing crafts
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in the Latteria, so when the Latteria isn't running and
they're taking a break, you can go in and learn
how to paint different clague sculptures with these artisans that
have handmade these clay sculptures and have put in the
work to make them beautiful, and you can go in
and it's a free experience for everybody to go and
paint some beautiful crafts and then we also have a
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live muralist, so he painted a mural last year. That
mural will be up and available for people to see,
which is it's a phenomenal mirror. It has a mariachi
man on one side, in the ballet Folkurico dance around
the other, and then little parts of Portland are kind
of intertwined in there, so it's like a mixture of
Portland and Guadalajara together. And then he's painting another mural
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this year live for the entire four days of the event,
So I'm very excited to see what he creates this time.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, that'll be great to watch. It really sounds like
it's a family driven event.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yes, we definitely focused a lot more on family entertainment
and just being able to bring your kids down and
have a good time. But then also if you want
to stay a little later, maybe send them off to
grandma and Grandpa's and come back and get a few
drinks and watch the head lightning performers.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now, for people who might be concerned about safety, what
do you want them to know?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Safety for our events is always one of our top priorities.
It is the first thing that we discuss and it's
something that we discuss every time we're talking about in
the event. Just to make sure that we are keeping
the event safe and secure for everybody. We have a
phenomenal security team that is bi lingual well, which definitely helps.
We also are working closely with the Portland Police just
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to help support the safety of the fiesta and lots
of other things as well. For safety, I mean, we
have dogs that'll be roaming the fiesta site just making
sure that everybody's safe. Nobody brought anything in or snack
anything and that they weren't supposed to do so. Safety
is definitely a high priority to our team.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So how should people buy tickets?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You can either buy tickets in person, or if you
want to skip the lines and not have to wait
to buy a ticket, you can buy them online and
they are actually cheaper online than at the door.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you have a role for volunteers to play?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We do, yes, We still have lots of volunteer positions open.
You can volunteer at the PGSA booth and help spread
information on what the nonprofit does. You can also volunteer
in the plaza datos and help the kids and the
Boy Scouts of America kind of help entertain everybody. There's
lots of options.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So where can people learn more about the dates and
the hours and really everything that's involved in Senco de Mayo.
I imagine got a website.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, if you go to Portland Sincodomayo dot com, it
has all of the information on there. There is a
little drop down tab that says event info. In that
tab is the volunteer information or if you want to
sign up to possibly be a vendor next year, and
then also all of the schedule and the option to
buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Britney, thanks for joining us on Local Voices. That's Britney
Hummel with details on Portland Sinco de Mayo celebration. Again.
Their website is syncodomayel Portland dot com, which is where
you can buy tickets. It runs May sewid through the
fifth April is Alcohol Awareness Month and the Oregon Health
Authority wants you to rethink the drink. Deputy Oregon State
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Health Officer doctor Tom Jean joins us on Local Voices.
Doctor Gene, how much of a problem is excessive alcohol use?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Yeah, so alcohol use. What we're really focused on is
excessive alcohol use, and that is primarily heavy drinking. And
been shrinking. So, first of all, heavy drinking, the definition
is it's basically more than two or more drinks a
day for men and one or more drink a day
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for women, So that works out to fifteen or more
per week for men and eight or more per week
for women. You know, an organ about one in five
oregan adults is meeting that definition of excessive drinking. And
we have seen trends in the US of a gradual
increase in alcohol use and also things like you know,
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the alcohol related death rate over the past several decades,
really since around the nineteen nineties, things have been increasing
in terms of alcohol consumptions. So that's certainly a concern
from many perspectives, including health and public safety.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Are there acceptable levels of alcohol use?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
So, you know, we've often talked about kind of lighter
modern drinking versus heavy drinking, and I think the definitions
that just gave for excessive drinking are really what we're
focused on now. So one drink a day or less
for women and two drinks a day or less for men. However,
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what's really important, and I think what has changed based
on the latest evidence, is that we're emphasizing that no
matter how much you are drinking. Drinking less is going
to result in better health at a lower risk for
the numerous health effects of alcohol. So that's everything from
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of course things like alcohol related injuries, but also liver disease,
at least several different types of cancer, heart disease, etc.
So this is really it really extends into many different
areas of health and chronic disease as well as acute problems.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Does alcohol use have effects on sleep? Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Alcohol is not great for sleep, and I think you
know that might surprise some people, because if you have
several drinks before bed, you might find that you fall asleep,
you're tired, and you might even sleep longer than normal.
But alcohol actually disrupts what we call the sleep architecture.
So the normal phases that you would go through during
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the night of deeper sleep and then rem sleep, which
is a lighter sleep but still very important, those can
be severely disrupted by alcohol. And actually even a relatively
small amount of alcohol, even a drink or two, can
adversely impact your sleep and how RESTful your sleep is.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Is alcohol consumption habitual or addictive?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yes, it's clear that alcohol can be addictive. There are
many people, of course, who have what we now call
alcohol use disorder, you know, colloquially known as alcoholism or
alcohol addiction, and that is that is very common. But
of course, most people who are using alcohol don't have
alcohol use disorder, and I think traditionally we have kind
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of just it said that that's not really a problem,
you know, as long as you're drinking and moderation. But
you know, the more people are drinking excessively, even if
it's not rising to that level of alcohol use disorder,
the more they're at risk from the things I've already mentioned.
But they're also at risk for developing alcohol use disorder
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and having that kind of addiction and all the massive
impacts that that can have on your life and the
lives of those around you. So that's yet another reason
to be aware of this and consider drinking less.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is alcohol use disorder something that develops over a long
period of time, and it is that why it's difficult
for people to see it happening.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Yeah, it can be slow and insidious. It can also
happen relatively quickly. I mean, there are people in their
teens and twenties who meet that definition, and some people
may even by that age have severe organ effects like
liver disease already. So it's certainly variable. It depends on
the person, but it can happen over a shorter time
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frame or a longer time frame.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Are there causes for too much alcohol consumption or even
many alcohol consumption stress or social or psychological issues that
people might be having.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, certainly, we all face a lot of stress in
our lives, some people more than others, and alcohol has
kind of traditionally been a socially acceptable way of trying
to cope with that, and it may offer some benefit
to some people in moderation. But the other side of
that coin is that when it alcohol is socially acceptable,
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when it's readily available and in many cases very cheap,
you know, very low priced, that just results in more
people drinking more. And as I just said, the more
you're drinking, the more you're at risk for those health
effects and for for alcohol use disorder.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Do you think that alcohol use is becoming more socially acceptable, Well, I.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Think that's an interesting question. I think it's going to
vary to some extent, but at the national level at least,
I think we're seeing a bit of the opposite. I
think we're starting to see, you know, and part of
this may be related to the messaging like the Surgeon
General's report that came out this year and media reports
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that are focusing on these these studies and the latest science.
I think we are seeing a bit of a shift where,
you know, it's perhaps becoming a little more common to have,
you know, dry events, less assumptions that you know, when
you go out, you're going to be drinking, when you
go to a party, you're going to be drinking. We've
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seen that the younger generations are drinking quite a bit
less than other generations did at their age, So I
think the context is changing and I think that's that's
a great thing. We'll have to see it's you know,
the trends are at this point not conclusive that this
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is a long term thing, but we hope to see
a continued change there and decline and alcohol consumption.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Do you have any tips on how to drink less alcohol?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Sure? Do? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
This can again vary a lot depending on your situation
and you know your individual factors, but I think a
lot of it has to do with your social context.
So if you are getting together with friends, you're having
a party, you're going out, folks sing on having non
alcoholic beverage options and normalizing that. So uh, you know,
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don't ask people why they aren't drinking, don't pressure people
into drinking more. Drink plenty of water, so you can
alternate if you're if you're out for a few hours,
you can alternate an alcoholic drink with water or some
other non alcoholic drink. Of course, arrange to have a
designated driver if you're if you're going out, and then
you know, setting a limit before you even start, before
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you start, uh, you know, the engagement of the gathering.
Set yourself a reasonable limit for how many drinks you're
going to have or you're going to have one drink
to drinks, and you can also count your drinks using
an app or another tool. And I should add that
we have a lot of other resources and tips on
our Rethink the Drink website, which is rethinkthedrink dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I was just going to get to that. Tell me
about the Rethink the Drink campaign that's run by the
or and Health Authority.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
We Think the Drink. It's a statewide effort by the
organ Health Authority and it's really it's started in summer
twenty twenty two, so we're now in our third year
of it. It's aiming to change the conversation about alcohol
and highlight excessive alcohol use. So it's you know, of
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course educational, it's talking about some of those health effects,
the numerous health effects and consequences of drinking, even moderate drinking.
And importantly, it's aiming to create supportive and healthy environments
and communities across Oregon. So some of those tips I
just mentioned are among the strategies working with community partners
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throughout the state to help get that message out and
to you know, help people in their own communities who
want to make these changes. So organ is the first
state in the country to have a communications initiative of scale.
And again we're really targeting excessive drinking for all adults
age twenty one and older. And why that is unique, Brad,
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is that most of the time we have focused on
problem drinking, drinking and driving. Some of those those are
the big targets that we've really focused on in the past.
And when I say we, I mean the larger public
health community and those are, to be sure, super important,
but again, the majority of drinkers are not in that category,
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but they are still having some negative health impacts. So
that's what we're really trying to highlight with Rethink the Drink.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Now you mentioned this, but tell us a little bit
more about some of the resources available for people who
need help reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption and what's the
easiest way for them to find those resources.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, so rethinkthedrink dot com has quite a few resources
on it. There's also the Alcohol and Drug Helpline, so
that's one eight hundred nine two three four, three five seven.
There's also the new nine to eight eight line. You
just dial nine eight eight for resources related to substance
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use or mental health or other issues. So those are
some of the great places. And of course I should
also mention, you know, talking to your healthcare provider about
your alcohol use and any questions you have about how
that might impact your health or health conditions you have,
as all as a great.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Idea, anything else you'd like to add that I didn't
ask you about.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
We are seeing, you know, the change in context that
I mentioned, and we haven't seen a huge change in
our numbers yet, but it was encouraging that we are
starting to see perhaps a decline in excessive drinking and
heavy drinking in Oregon. So the numbers, the most recent
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numbers we have are from twenty twenty three, and excessive
drinking was dat from twenty one point three percent to
eighteen point three percent between twenty twenty two and twenty
twenty three, so that's a great sign. And I also
mentioned that you know, the younger generations has been drinking
less and an organ. The graph is really a nice
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one to look at because it goes back to two
thousand and one and there's just been basically a having
a fifty percent reduction in the number of number of
Oregon students who are our youth who are binge drinking
since two thousand and one, so those are obviously going
in the right direction. But there are more than twenty
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five hundred alcohol related deaths in organ every year still,
so that is way too many. That is more than
people are dying from opioids. It's the third leading preventable
cause of death after tobacco and OBC related causes. So
it is still a very large factor and we need
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to get those numbers down.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Tom, thanks for joining us and local voices. That's doctor
Tom Jean, the Deputy Oregon State health officer discussing excessive
alcohol use. You can learn more on the website rethinkthedrink
dot com. Thanks for listening to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord.
You can hear past episodes on the iHeartRadio app under
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the podcast tab. Local Voices is a public affairs presentation
from iHeartRadio.
Welcome to Local Voices. I'm brad Ford. The Oregon Humane
Society is getting ready for their big fundraiser, Doggie Dash Portland,
Sinco to Myles. Celebration will start May second. We'll get
a preview and April is Alcohol Awareness Month. We'll talk
with the Deputy State Health Officer to learn more about
Rethink the Drink. The Oregon Humane Societies Doggy Dash happens
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May tenth. Laura Clink with the Oregon Humane Society joins
us on Local Voices to tell us about it. Laura,
what happens at Doggy Dash.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, Doggy Dash is just this huge festival and celebration
of people and pets, and it is really one of
Portland's most beloved events. It takes place. This will be
our thirty eighth year at Waterfront Park in downtown Portland,
and we have so many exciting new things this year
for Doggy Dash.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We have a Doggy Dash in.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Salem on June fourteenth, So you know, this is our
biggest and most important fundraising event of the year and
just a great opportunity to bring the community together and
celebrate our love for animals.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Now, some of the dog owners get really creative tell
us about some of the costumes.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Oh, I tell you, you will not find a better place
to people watch and dog watch than Doggy Dash. So
my favorite we have a person who comes to the
Salem event who dresses up in a Hawaiian outfit and
he has this elderly chihuahua that he dresses similarly with
a let and a little hula skirt, and they are
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just adorable. We see so many great costumes, people that
are dressing like their dogs, people are dressing, you know,
in a theme or things like that. And one of
the really fun parts of this event too is all
the people that come back year after year after year.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Why is this event so important for the Humane Society?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Well, as I.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Mentioned before, Doggy Dash is Oregon Humane Society's largest fundraising
event of the year. So in addition to registering the event,
we also provide folks with the opportunity to fundraise.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
And earn certain prizes.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
And the dollars that are raised by our fundraisers and
by the community are really important for funding Orgon Humane
Societies life saving programs. So that includes pet adoption, that
includes accessible veterinary care at our community Veterinary hospital. We
have so many great services at our Salem campus, including
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spay and neuter services for community cats and also owned pets.
We also work with shelter partners all over Oregon through
our Second Chance program to transport those animals to organ
Humane Society for adoption.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
We have a humane law enforcement team.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So the breadth of services at Oregon Humane Society is
a lot bigger than most people realize, and it takes
a lot of resources to keep all those services running
and we truly could not do it without our donors
and without the support of the community.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
So how does a fundraising for doggy Dash work for participants?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
So it's really easy.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
When you register, you will get a series of emails
that instruct you on how to set up your own
fundraising page. And fundraising might sound really daunting to people,
but there are so many creative ways that you can
raise funds and help animals. We have people who will
have a garage sale and donate the proceeds to to
Doggy Dash.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
We have folks who will you know who.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Maybe are really great cooks and like to make brownies
and sell those at their workplace. So when you register
for doggy Dash, we set you up for success by
giving you lots of great fundraising ideas a really easy
to use interactive tool to set up that page. We
encourage people to share why they're supporting Oregon Humane Society.
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Maybe you've adopted your pet from Orgon Humane Society, and
certainly with social media, there's a lot of opportunities to
share those stories of why Oregon Humane Society is important
to you and why you're supporting it.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Are there prizes, Yes, we have.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
A lot of really great prizes.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Year after year, our events team always comes up with
the most incredible prizes. So we have some of our
regular favorites like T shirts and sweatshirts. We have a
really full cross body bag that is for folks who
raise one hundred and fifty dollars or more. We have
we're working with Portland Gear this year and they are
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providing us with these really awesome Duffel bags. We have
blankets and then overnight stays at the coast and in
Central Oregon. But it's really important to just remember that
when folks are fundraising for the Oregon Humane Society, those
dollars are going towards saving lives, and that is at
our Portland campus and at our Salem campus, and this
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year we are really excited to have doggy Dash in
Salem as well. So folks, when you rea register for
doggy Dash, you can register for either Portland or Salem
or both. So we're calling those the double Dashers and
they are both such wonderful locations and events, and so
we are really encouraging folks to come join us at both.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Locations this year.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Double Dashers, that's great. How do you register?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
So we have a really easy to use registration form
on our website at doggy dash dot org. And at
the website you will find everything about the various roots,
the pricing for young folks for double Dashers, kids tend
and under dash for free, which is great, and then
also some information about the all the incredible activities in Portland.
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We're really excited to partner with Subaru Portland at Salem
doggy Dash. The Marble Center is our title sponsor and
we're working with just dozens of local businesses to really
have a wonderful festival for folks to attend.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
So for people who haven't been invol doggie Dash before,
do you have any advice for first time dashers?
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Well, of course, like I mentioned I encourage folks to
double dash because the two events are just different but
so fun in their own unique way. So obviously, the
big festival at Waterfront Park has been happening for thirty
eight years in Salem, Oregon Humane Society merged in twenty
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twenty two with Willammett Humane Society. They had an event
down there called WILLELM. Mutt Strutt and we've rebranded it
Doggie Dash. But there's so many things that are wonderful
about that event that people in the Salem area have
grown accustomed to. The event takes place at Riverfront Park
and Salem, and if you've never been to Riverfront Park
in Salem, it's just a beautiful location. The route crosses
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two bridges and goes alongside the river and it's just
a beautiful location. Like I mentioned, we have local businesses
in our Salem community and in our Portland community who
will have.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, vendor booths.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
In Portland, we will have an agility demonstration, some frisbee dogs.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
We have School of Rock who will be.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Performing on the concert stage in Portland, and I that
is one of my favorite parts of this event because
to see these young people up there so talented sharing
their musical expertise with with folks, and I personally love
some of the retro songs that they play, so it
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you know, what people can expect at both events is
just this feeling of joy and excitement that we get
from being around animals and around a community that also
loves animals. There's nothing really quite like connecting with people
who share that love of animals, and Doggy Dash is
just a great opportunity.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
To do just that.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
It is. It's such a fun event. Tell us the
website one more time where people can go to a register.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
The website is doggy dash dot org and there's again
all the information about the routes, how to register, what
you'll find at each event. We're really excited about the
iHeartRadio contest stage. That is always really fun because some
of the contests are so fun and even if you
and your dog don't participate, you can come watch the
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contests and those.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Are super fun.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So we're so appreciative to iHeartRadio for your partnership and
helping to make this a really fun event for the community.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Laura, thanks for joining us on Local Voices.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
That's Laura clink with the Oregon Humane Society again. Doggie
Dash happens May tenth, and you can register right now
on the Oregon Humane Society's website. D on Senco to
Mayo celebration is May second through the fifth of Tom
McCall Waterfront Park. Brittany Hummel joins us on Local Voices, Brittany,
why do we celebrate sen go to Myyo?
Speaker 4 (08:55):
So so you go to Mao? Started almost forty years
ago now when PGA, which is the Portland Guadalajara Sister
City Association PGSCA, for sure, they started the sister city
relationship back in nineteen eighty three and then a couple
years later started the Cinco de Mamyo Fiesta as a
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fundraising opportunity for their groups that they could go and
do things in the community and then also go to
Guadalajara and do things in the community. There.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Tell us more about Portland's connection to its sister city
in Mexico.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, the PGCA goes to Guadalajara once or twice a
year and they go out there. They kind of help
in the schools, They help make sure that there is
support in learning the English language, just kind of do
as much as they can while they're out there, and
then obviously when they're here in the States, they do
as much as they can here as well. And we
bring out the mariachi every year from Guadalajara, and we
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also bring out twelve artisanos from Guadalajara to sell their
goods at Sinco de Mayo, So we try to help
support small businesses that are from our sister city as well.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
So tell us more about what visitors can expect at
the celebration.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
Oh man, there's so much. Every day of the fiesta
is different, Like you could come on Friday and it'll
be a completely different experience on Sunday. On Friday, we
have a lowrider car show that is coming through and
it is an organized group that has some really awesome cars.
I've seen them before, they're really cool. And then we
also have on Saturday and Sunday the Rip City Youth
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Amateur Boxing Tournament. We also have on Saturday and Sunday
the professional Lucha Libre boxing and then we also are
bringing the Portland Public Schools Latin X Choir this year,
which is a really cool new thing that we've added,
so you can come and support a local.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Choir now there's also an artists in village. What can
you tell us about that?
Speaker 4 (10:52):
The artisan village is specifically the Artisato's from Guadalajara, So
there's about twelve of them that come over and they
are live making their goods in their boos while also
selling stuff that they have been working all year to
make just for this fiesta. And then on top of that,
in the merchandise area, we have vendors from all over
Oregon and Washington that are coming to sell their goods
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as well.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Wow, that'll be fun to do some dropping tell us
about the Plaza de Plaza da a Ninos.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
This year is being ran by the Boy Scouts of America,
so they're going to be in there doing some different
activities and activations, really trying to connect closer with the
kids in the community and get a couple of kids
maybe signed up to be Boy Scouts.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
How about the food. There's a big variety of food right, Oh.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
Man, there's so much food. There is just so much food.
You could do a whole tasting weekend every day try
something different, but there's so much to look forward to.
We have a Mexican flare on a baked potato. We
have pazzole, we have tortise. I mean, everything that you
could think of we have, and probably some things that
you would never think of eating we have.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
I mean it's a lot of it's traditional Mexican food
that you don't normally get here.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Yes, there is a lot of traditional Mexican food, but
then there's also some fun flares on, like American foods
that they've taken and made a little different, which I
think is really fun nice.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
How about the entertainment, I think you kind of touched
on it earlier, but what kind of entertainment's available.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Well, the entertainment is very special this year. It's Tommy
Special every year. But I always enjoy watching the mariachi
and the ballet perform. Their performances are so beautiful, lots
of colors, lots of just amazing dancing, like they practice
for hours and hours every day and it is just
an incredible experience to watch. On top of that, we
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have some solo mariachi performances this year where they're going
to be. In the past, they've kind of been at
the back of the stage because they have the ballet
dancing in front of them, but we asked them to
do a couple solo performances, so they can be a
little closer to the front of the stage and you
get kind of a more up close and personal experience
with the mariachi, which is really a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1 (13:01):
It is i that would be fun to watch. What's
new this year, Well.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The Luja Libre is new this year. It hasn't been
around since pre COVID was the last time that they
had the Loocha doors, so this is the first year
in a while that we'll have the Lucha doors. We
also have the Lowrider Car Show, which we did do
last year, but it's still kind of new this year.
There's going to be more cars, it's going to be
a bigger space than what they had last time. And
then we also have an artist that is doing crafts
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in the Latteria, so when the Latteria isn't running and
they're taking a break, you can go in and learn
how to paint different clague sculptures with these artisans that
have handmade these clay sculptures and have put in the
work to make them beautiful, and you can go in
and it's a free experience for everybody to go and
paint some beautiful crafts and then we also have a
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live muralist, so he painted a mural last year. That
mural will be up and available for people to see,
which is it's a phenomenal mirror. It has a mariachi
man on one side, in the ballet Folkurico dance around
the other, and then little parts of Portland are kind
of intertwined in there, so it's like a mixture of
Portland and Guadalajara together. And then he's painting another mural
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this year live for the entire four days of the event,
So I'm very excited to see what he creates this time.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Oh, that'll be great to watch. It really sounds like
it's a family driven event.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Yes, we definitely focused a lot more on family entertainment
and just being able to bring your kids down and
have a good time. But then also if you want
to stay a little later, maybe send them off to
grandma and Grandpa's and come back and get a few
drinks and watch the head lightning performers.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Now, for people who might be concerned about safety, what
do you want them to know?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Safety for our events is always one of our top priorities.
It is the first thing that we discuss and it's
something that we discuss every time we're talking about in
the event. Just to make sure that we are keeping
the event safe and secure for everybody. We have a
phenomenal security team that is bi lingual well, which definitely helps.
We also are working closely with the Portland Police just
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to help support the safety of the fiesta and lots
of other things as well. For safety, I mean, we
have dogs that'll be roaming the fiesta site just making
sure that everybody's safe. Nobody brought anything in or snack
anything and that they weren't supposed to do so. Safety
is definitely a high priority to our team.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So how should people buy tickets?
Speaker 4 (15:23):
You can either buy tickets in person, or if you
want to skip the lines and not have to wait
to buy a ticket, you can buy them online and
they are actually cheaper online than at the door.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Do you have a role for volunteers to play?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
We do, yes, We still have lots of volunteer positions open.
You can volunteer at the PGSA booth and help spread
information on what the nonprofit does. You can also volunteer
in the plaza datos and help the kids and the
Boy Scouts of America kind of help entertain everybody. There's
lots of options.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
So where can people learn more about the dates and
the hours and really everything that's involved in Senco de Mayo.
I imagine got a website.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Yeah, if you go to Portland Sincodomayo dot com, it
has all of the information on there. There is a
little drop down tab that says event info. In that
tab is the volunteer information or if you want to
sign up to possibly be a vendor next year, and
then also all of the schedule and the option to
buy tickets.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Britney, thanks for joining us on Local Voices. That's Britney
Hummel with details on Portland Sinco de Mayo celebration. Again.
Their website is syncodomayel Portland dot com, which is where
you can buy tickets. It runs May sewid through the
fifth April is Alcohol Awareness Month and the Oregon Health
Authority wants you to rethink the drink. Deputy Oregon State
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Health Officer doctor Tom Jean joins us on Local Voices.
Doctor Gene, how much of a problem is excessive alcohol use?
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Yeah, so alcohol use. What we're really focused on is
excessive alcohol use, and that is primarily heavy drinking. And
been shrinking. So, first of all, heavy drinking, the definition
is it's basically more than two or more drinks a
day for men and one or more drink a day
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for women, So that works out to fifteen or more
per week for men and eight or more per week
for women. You know, an organ about one in five
oregan adults is meeting that definition of excessive drinking. And
we have seen trends in the US of a gradual
increase in alcohol use and also things like you know,
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the alcohol related death rate over the past several decades,
really since around the nineteen nineties, things have been increasing
in terms of alcohol consumptions. So that's certainly a concern
from many perspectives, including health and public safety.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Are there acceptable levels of alcohol use?
Speaker 5 (17:55):
So, you know, we've often talked about kind of lighter
modern drinking versus heavy drinking, and I think the definitions
that just gave for excessive drinking are really what we're
focused on now. So one drink a day or less
for women and two drinks a day or less for men. However,
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what's really important, and I think what has changed based
on the latest evidence, is that we're emphasizing that no
matter how much you are drinking. Drinking less is going
to result in better health at a lower risk for
the numerous health effects of alcohol. So that's everything from
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of course things like alcohol related injuries, but also liver disease,
at least several different types of cancer, heart disease, etc.
So this is really it really extends into many different
areas of health and chronic disease as well as acute problems.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Does alcohol use have effects on sleep? Yes.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Alcohol is not great for sleep, and I think you
know that might surprise some people, because if you have
several drinks before bed, you might find that you fall asleep,
you're tired, and you might even sleep longer than normal.
But alcohol actually disrupts what we call the sleep architecture.
So the normal phases that you would go through during
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the night of deeper sleep and then rem sleep, which
is a lighter sleep but still very important, those can
be severely disrupted by alcohol. And actually even a relatively
small amount of alcohol, even a drink or two, can
adversely impact your sleep and how RESTful your sleep is.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Is alcohol consumption habitual or addictive?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
Yes, it's clear that alcohol can be addictive. There are
many people, of course, who have what we now call
alcohol use disorder, you know, colloquially known as alcoholism or
alcohol addiction, and that is that is very common. But
of course, most people who are using alcohol don't have
alcohol use disorder, and I think traditionally we have kind
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of just it said that that's not really a problem,
you know, as long as you're drinking and moderation. But
you know, the more people are drinking excessively, even if
it's not rising to that level of alcohol use disorder,
the more they're at risk from the things I've already mentioned.
But they're also at risk for developing alcohol use disorder
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and having that kind of addiction and all the massive
impacts that that can have on your life and the
lives of those around you. So that's yet another reason
to be aware of this and consider drinking less.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Is alcohol use disorder something that develops over a long
period of time, and it is that why it's difficult
for people to see it happening.
Speaker 5 (21:01):
Yeah, it can be slow and insidious. It can also
happen relatively quickly. I mean, there are people in their
teens and twenties who meet that definition, and some people
may even by that age have severe organ effects like
liver disease already. So it's certainly variable. It depends on
the person, but it can happen over a shorter time
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frame or a longer time frame.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
Are there causes for too much alcohol consumption or even
many alcohol consumption stress or social or psychological issues that
people might be having.
Speaker 5 (21:37):
Yeah, certainly, we all face a lot of stress in
our lives, some people more than others, and alcohol has
kind of traditionally been a socially acceptable way of trying
to cope with that, and it may offer some benefit
to some people in moderation. But the other side of
that coin is that when it alcohol is socially acceptable,
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when it's readily available and in many cases very cheap,
you know, very low priced, that just results in more
people drinking more. And as I just said, the more
you're drinking, the more you're at risk for those health
effects and for for alcohol use disorder.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Do you think that alcohol use is becoming more socially acceptable, Well, I.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Think that's an interesting question. I think it's going to
vary to some extent, but at the national level at least,
I think we're seeing a bit of the opposite. I
think we're starting to see, you know, and part of
this may be related to the messaging like the Surgeon
General's report that came out this year and media reports
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that are focusing on these these studies and the latest science.
I think we are seeing a bit of a shift where,
you know, it's perhaps becoming a little more common to have,
you know, dry events, less assumptions that you know, when
you go out, you're going to be drinking, when you
go to a party, you're going to be drinking. We've
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seen that the younger generations are drinking quite a bit
less than other generations did at their age, So I
think the context is changing and I think that's that's
a great thing. We'll have to see it's you know,
the trends are at this point not conclusive that this
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is a long term thing, but we hope to see
a continued change there and decline and alcohol consumption.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Do you have any tips on how to drink less alcohol?
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Sure? Do? Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
I mean.
Speaker 5 (23:43):
This can again vary a lot depending on your situation
and you know your individual factors, but I think a
lot of it has to do with your social context.
So if you are getting together with friends, you're having
a party, you're going out, folks sing on having non
alcoholic beverage options and normalizing that. So uh, you know,
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don't ask people why they aren't drinking, don't pressure people
into drinking more. Drink plenty of water, so you can
alternate if you're if you're out for a few hours,
you can alternate an alcoholic drink with water or some
other non alcoholic drink. Of course, arrange to have a
designated driver if you're if you're going out, and then
you know, setting a limit before you even start, before
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you start, uh, you know, the engagement of the gathering.
Set yourself a reasonable limit for how many drinks you're
going to have or you're going to have one drink
to drinks, and you can also count your drinks using
an app or another tool. And I should add that
we have a lot of other resources and tips on
our Rethink the Drink website, which is rethinkthedrink dot com.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I was just going to get to that. Tell me
about the Rethink the Drink campaign that's run by the
or and Health Authority.
Speaker 5 (25:02):
We Think the Drink. It's a statewide effort by the
organ Health Authority and it's really it's started in summer
twenty twenty two, so we're now in our third year
of it. It's aiming to change the conversation about alcohol
and highlight excessive alcohol use. So it's you know, of
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course educational, it's talking about some of those health effects,
the numerous health effects and consequences of drinking, even moderate drinking.
And importantly, it's aiming to create supportive and healthy environments
and communities across Oregon. So some of those tips I
just mentioned are among the strategies working with community partners
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throughout the state to help get that message out and
to you know, help people in their own communities who
want to make these changes. So organ is the first
state in the country to have a communications initiative of scale.
And again we're really targeting excessive drinking for all adults
age twenty one and older. And why that is unique, Brad,
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is that most of the time we have focused on
problem drinking, drinking and driving. Some of those those are
the big targets that we've really focused on in the past.
And when I say we, I mean the larger public
health community and those are, to be sure, super important,
but again, the majority of drinkers are not in that category,
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but they are still having some negative health impacts. So
that's what we're really trying to highlight with Rethink the Drink.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Now you mentioned this, but tell us a little bit
more about some of the resources available for people who
need help reducing or eliminating alcohol consumption and what's the
easiest way for them to find those resources.
Speaker 5 (26:50):
Yeah, so rethinkthedrink dot com has quite a few resources
on it. There's also the Alcohol and Drug Helpline, so
that's one eight hundred nine two three four, three five seven.
There's also the new nine to eight eight line. You
just dial nine eight eight for resources related to substance
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use or mental health or other issues. So those are
some of the great places. And of course I should
also mention, you know, talking to your healthcare provider about
your alcohol use and any questions you have about how
that might impact your health or health conditions you have,
as all as a great.
Speaker 1 (27:31):
Idea, anything else you'd like to add that I didn't
ask you about.
Speaker 5 (27:35):
We are seeing, you know, the change in context that
I mentioned, and we haven't seen a huge change in
our numbers yet, but it was encouraging that we are
starting to see perhaps a decline in excessive drinking and
heavy drinking in Oregon. So the numbers, the most recent
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numbers we have are from twenty twenty three, and excessive
drinking was dat from twenty one point three percent to
eighteen point three percent between twenty twenty two and twenty
twenty three, so that's a great sign. And I also
mentioned that you know, the younger generations has been drinking
less and an organ. The graph is really a nice
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one to look at because it goes back to two
thousand and one and there's just been basically a having
a fifty percent reduction in the number of number of
Oregon students who are our youth who are binge drinking
since two thousand and one, so those are obviously going
in the right direction. But there are more than twenty
(28:37):
five hundred alcohol related deaths in organ every year still,
so that is way too many. That is more than
people are dying from opioids. It's the third leading preventable
cause of death after tobacco and OBC related causes. So
it is still a very large factor and we need
(28:57):
to get those numbers down.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Tom, thanks for joining us and local voices. That's doctor
Tom Jean, the Deputy Oregon State health officer discussing excessive
alcohol use. You can learn more on the website rethinkthedrink
dot com. Thanks for listening to Local Voices. I'm Brad Bord.
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