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Ohio High School Seniors Lead Substance Use Prevention Summit for Middle Schoolers
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.
Young Adult Housing Aid Vouchers
May is National Foster Care Month, raising awareness about an issue that has become increasingly tied to drug addiction. Learn about a voucher program promoted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides housing aid to young adults who are exiting foster care and are at risk of becoming homeless.
Fentanyl: A Decade of Death
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.
2024 Red Ribbon Photo Contest Winners Announced
The DEA and the National Family Partnership have announced the winners of the 2024 Red Ribbon Week Photo Contest!
Can You Spot the Difference?
Report: Young Americans are more and more likely to wind up in hospital ICUs after consuming fake, fentanyl-laced Oxycontin pills.
Gabi's Story
After surviving multiple overdoses, an Austin teen hopes to raise awareness about underage drug use.
'Know Ur Vape' Puts Drug-Free Twist on Unboxing Videos
Social media influencers put a twist on unboxing videos to demonstrate the dangers of vaping.
Protect Your Brain
This new video, produced by the Addiction Policy Forum, shares a few good strategies for protecting your brain from substance misuse disorder.
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.
"It's just weed." Spend enough time at parties and you will probably hear this phrase used in instances of peer pressure to use marijuana. But what this reassurance does not convey is that cannabis is four times as potent today as it was just three decades ago.
Female youth aged 12 to 24 and youth of both sexes aged 14 to 16 living in states with legalized medical marijuana or recreational marijuana between 2000 and 2019 had higher rates of death by suicide than youth in states with no such laws, according to a report in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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.
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.
A partial autopsy conducted on former One Direction singer Liam Payne found multiple substances in his system when he fell to his death from the third-floor balcony of a hotel room in Argentina last week, according to a new report from ABC News.