DEA and the National Family Partnership have announced the winners of the 2025 Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest!

This is the 15th installment in a series of profiles featuring both DEA personnel, as well as now statewide drug 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.

During Red Ribbon Week each October, young people in communities and schools across the nation pledge to live drug-free by wearing red ribbons and participating in community-wide anti-drug events. This year's National Red Ribbon Rally features diverse community perspectives, youth performances, and contest winners.

Nearly 100 middle school students participated in a crucial lesson on substance use, with instruction and mentorship provided by Ohio high school seniors from the Fairfield Prevention Coalition. The goal of the summit is to raise awareness among younger students about the dangers of substance use.

Fentanyl is driving overdose deaths in San Diego and beyond. Steve Breen and his San Diego-based nonprofit newsroom inewsource explore the problem and the human toll through illustrated storytelling.

Report: Young Americans are more and more likely to wind up in hospital ICUs after consuming counterfeit, fentanyl-laced Oxycontin pills.

After surviving multiple overdoses, an Austin teen hopes to raise awareness about underage drug use.

Social media influencers put a twist on unboxing videos to demonstrate the dangers of vaping.

This new video, produced by the Addiction Policy Forum, shares a few good strategies for protecting your brain from substance misuse disorder.