Chamber Connect featuring Southwest Utah Public Health Department

Business owners are constantly looking to the future, identify trends and preparing for challenges.  A healthy workforce is crucial to the success of any business.  Come learn about teen drug use (your future employees) and how we, as a community, can prevent the use of these harmful drugs.  We will discuss the following:

• ·         New trends - e-cigarette and marijuana use has significantly increased  in Washington County with 1 in 3, 12th graders experimenting with e-cigs.
• ·         New harms - learn how nicotine and THC (marijuana) wires the developing brain for addiction, including the latest e-cigarette research showing they are more harmful than originally thought.
• ·         Business solutions - learn what resources exist to help businesses prevent drug use among employees.

• ·         Dr. Craig Georgianna PhD, LMFT - Therapia Addiction Healing Center
• ·         Logan Reid, MS, PS - Director of Prevention Services, Southwest Utah Behavioral Health Center
• ·         Kye Nordfelt, MPA, PS - Director of Health Promotions, Southwest Utah Public Health Department