Prevention

Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use. 

Guidelines and Recommendations for School-based Prevention

Book
Over the past 25 years, there has been a significant focus on the need to address young people’s health and behaviour as a major and necessary part of the school curriculum. The objectives for prevention have to include effective policies...

Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse

Video and audio recordings
This webinar highlights findings from SAMHSA’s guide titled, Implementing Community-Level Policies to Prevent Alcohol Misuse, which explores evidence-based, community-level strategies to prevent alcohol misuse. Following an overview of the...

Prevention of Opioid Use Education Materials

Guide
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Mid-America Addiction Technology Transfer Center (MATTC) partnered with the Ethnic Communities Opioid Response Network in Missouri, the Addiction Policy Forum, and the Opioid Response Network (ORN in IA, KS, MO, and NE) to translate 5...

Two Countries and one problem: Prevention in Pediatrics

ISSUP Webinar
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ISSUP Brasil presented a webinar with pediatricians discussing ways of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work. Two pediatricians discuss the means of prevention and how problems caused by substance use work. Moderators...