Dear Prevention Colleagues,

This year, the Office for National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) will host its second ‘Above The Influence Day’ on October 17, 2013.  We are delighted about this year’s “Made by Me” national commercial challenge that calls on teens to share their ideas for the next ‘Above The Influence’ commercial. The “Made by Me” challenge allows teens to submit 60 second video entries that capture...

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announces a new opportunity for individuals and organizations to help prevent high-risk drinking among college students. SAMHSA is seeking solutions to this problem through cost-effective, portable, technology-based products that effectively reach a diverse population of college students and their parents, as well as administrators, faculty, and staff, and that can be adapted to meet the local needs...

A smoking-cessation medication may be a viable option for the treatment of alcohol dependence, according to a study by scientists at the National Institutes of Health. The study found that varenicline (marketed under the name Chantix), approved in 2006 to help people stop smoking, significantly reduced alcohol consumption and craving among people who are alcohol-dependent. The findings were published online in the Journal of Addiction Medicine.

“This is an encouraging...

Ever wonder why Washington has one of the highest seat belt use rates in the country? It is due, in large part, to the highly visible “Click It or Ticket” campaign which includes publicity, extra enforcement, and signage. In June 2002, when the primary seat belt law went into effect, approximately 82 percent of Washington drivers wore seat belts and today, nearly 97 percent of Washington drivers are buckling up.

Now, it’s time to focus on another important traffic...

“Our Native culture is prevention,” says a teenager in Critical Dialogue with Native Youth about Underage Drinking: Our Culture is Prevention (Our Culture is Prevention), a new video available from the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking.

The video features comments from several American Indian young people and two tribal elders about the...

By Join Together Staff

Fifty percent more pills were collected during the latest National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, compared with the previous event in 2012, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced.

The agency said 742,497 pounds of prescription medications were collected from almost 6,000 sites around the country on April 27,...

By: Jason Kane, cdc

Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that ruptured a disc, the linebacker for the University of Oklahoma Sooners played through the pain that lingered...