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This is the 15th installment in a series of profiles featuring both DEA personnel, as well as now statewide drug misuse prevention groups. Learn about the tough but fulfilling, fascinating, and vital work these individuals and organizations do, as well as the many different ways to get involved in fighting drug misuse. For our 15th profile, we will be interviewing Dover Youth to Youth, based in New Hampshire.
Share these cannabis prevention graphics, part of the "Just Say Know" campaign by Johnny's Ambassadors.
This is the 14th installment in a series of profiles featuring DEA special agents, diversion investigators, chemists, and more. Learn about the tough but fulfilling, fascinating, and vital work these DEA personnel do, as well as the many different ways to get involved in fighting drug misuse. For our 14th profile, we will be interviewing Special Agent Tim.
Living Drug Free
Exercise is safe and effective, and especially helpful in long-term recovery from substance use disorders.
During National Prevention Week, communities and organizations across the country come together to raise awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and mental health promotion.
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Johnny’s Ambassadors sponsored a Video PSA Contest demonstrating the importance of preventing cannabis/THC use (vaping, dabbing, marijuana, edibles) among high school students. The contest was an opportunity for high schools to demonstrate how their students are working to prevent cannabis misuse at their school and to encourage their peers to abstain.
Congratulations to West Chester University of Pennsylvania, Jacksonville University, and Dartmouth College for winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the 2025 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, cosponsored by DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
From shareable fact sheets to educational web content, video PSAs, social media graphics, and an interactive graphic novel experience and conversation-starting card game (coming soon!), the CDC's Free Mind campaign offers a fresh, youth-friendly approach to help you and your peers cope with mental health problems and find healthy alternatives to substance use.
In this episode of “Stories from the Collection,” the DEA Museum explores the seizure of an underwater smuggling tube.
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A new [University of California] San Diego study found that there could be a connection between marijuana use and slower development of memory, focus and thinking speed in teenagers.
Teens who use weed are twice as likely to develop psychotic or bipolar disorders, a new study says.
Congratulations to the Drug Free Cecil Youth Coalition for winning the 2025 Dose of Prevention Challenge for their comprehensive, youth-led approach to medication misuse prevention across Cecil County!