Dupre appointed to Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board

Vi Dupre, the administrator of the Fallbrook Healthcare District, is now part of the County of San Diego’s Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board.

Dupre was appointed to the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board by the San Diego County Board of Supervisors on April 22. “I am delighted,” she said. “It will be interesting to be a participant and hopefully a contributor.”

Dupre had been sent an e-mail inquiring if she was interested in submitting an application to be considered for the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board. She discussed the invitation with the Fallbrook Healthcare District board, who felt that representation from Fallbrook on the county board would be beneficial.

“I think that being asked to apply for the appointment was a great compliment to Fallbrook, to the healthcare district,” Dupre said. “I’m very flattered that I was considered to be a candidate for the appointment.”

Dupre, who is originally from Minnesota, moved to California in 1984 and has been in the managed health care industry since then. She moved from Glendale to Fallbrook, where her daughter and granddaughter already resided, in February 2005 and began her position with the Fallbrook Healthcare District two days later. She has been in the health care field for her entire working career.

Dupre and John Lopez of North Inland Community Prevention Program recently authored a series of articles on the content of energy drinks. “It’s just an effort to make people aware of what is in them,” Dupre said.

The articles appeared in the Fallbrook/Bonsall Village News as a health feature, which contrasted with how the information that some of those energy drinks contain alcohol was revealed in Chula Vista’s weekly paper several weeks earlier. The Star-News article was a front-page news story about the citing of a store owner, who was unaware that the energy drinks had alcoholic content, for selling such alcoholic beverages to an underage decoy.

“It’s the adults who are not aware,” Dupre said of the content of the energy drinks.

Supervisor Bill Horn recommended Dupre’s appointment to the county’s Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board. Her term will expire on January 3, 2011.

“Perhaps I shall make a contribution that will be worthy of Fallbrook,” Dupre said. “I shall do my best.”

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