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Our recently released The Environmental Impact of Drugs... Know the Truth short animated video is now available in Spanish!

Our recently released Protective Factors video is now available in Spanish!

Our new Alternatives to Incarceration short video is now available in Spanish!

The current article provides a summary of biopsychosocial gender differences in alcohol use disorder (AUD), then reviews existing literature on gender differences in treatment access, retention, outcomes, and longer-term recovery. Among...

New resource about how substance use and mental health affects the workplace and the benefits of creating a wellness culture. 

This Facebook group was created for substance use prevention and wellness professionals to network and discuss problems, solutions and successes with implementing Prevention Plus Wellness programs to youth and young adults throughout the US...

Learn all about kratom with this new one-pager and start sharing in your community!

Learn about both the challenges and opportunities created by the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use, opioid overdose, and treatment.

Our popular resource page showing healthy lifestyle guidelines for youth and young adults in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, sleep and stress control has just been updated.

These resources can be used by prevention and health...

Understanding protective factors and how to build strong healthy youth and families can help prevent youth from experiencing adverse childhood experiences and initiating into substance use. Check out and share our new video and resources to...

Session Objectives:

1. Explain the need for and benefits of integrating wellness promotion into substance use prevention.
2. Describe a marketing-related conceptual model and steps for creating integrated prevention with wellness content...

Goal: To gain knowledge and confidence to implement the program to youth with fidelity and efficacy.

Length: 60 minutes

View recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/dWpudV6mlKU

Request a program sample: https://preventionpluswellness...

In 2012, Washington State University became the first to offer a PhD in Prevention Science. 

The curriculum is designed to ensure that students both

(a) receive broad, interdisciplinary training in the area of prevention science; and

(b)...

This resource highlights the dangers of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs including fentanyl being the driver behind the opioid-related deaths in the U.S., potency, their use as adulterants and in making counterfeit pills, common routes of...

The opioid epidemic has resulted in significant increases in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs, accounting for 23% of new infections. HCV is completely curable and testing and treatment are the path to cure. Opioid...

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To combat the growing opioid epidemic, people who use drugs need access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) as part of comprehensive treatment. Despite progress, treatment gaps remain. Our objective was to use...

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Importance: An important consequence of cannabis legalization is the potential increase in the number of cannabis-impaired drivers on roads, which may result in higher rates of traffic-related injuries and fatalities. To date...