Colorado Department of Education, Dr. Thustone, 2012 This presentation highlights how marijuana affects children and their ability to learn.
Resources
Understand the Big Deal: How Marijuana Harms Youth Fact Sheet
Colorado Department of Education, Dr. Thustone, 2012 This fact sheet highlights how marijuana affects children and their ability to learn.
A Practitioner’s Resource Guide: Helping Families to Support Their LGBT Children
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2014 This guide offers information and resources to help practitioners throughout health and social service systems implement best practices in engaging and helping families and caregivers to support their...
Epidemic: Responding to America’s Prescription Drug Abuse Crisis
Executive Office of the President of the United States, 2011 This Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Plan expands upon the Administration’s National Drug Control Strategy and includes action in four major areas to reduce prescription drug abuse: education, monitoring,...
Policy Impact: Prescription Painkiller Overdoses.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011 This document provides basic facts on prescription painkiller overdose in the U.S. and CDC policy recommendations to prevent it.
Opioid Overdose Prevention and Naloxone Distribution in Rhode Island
Michael A. Yokell, ScB, Traci C. Green, MSc, PhD, Sarah Bowman, MPH, Michelle McKenzie, MPH, and Josiah D. Rich, MD, MPH, 2011 This public access manuscript published in 2011 presents an overview and evaluation of a pilot overdose prevention program in Rhode Island....
Opioid Overdose: Preventing and reducing opioid overdose mortality
UN Office on Drugs and Crime and World Health Organization, 2013 This discussion paper outlines the facts about opioid overdose (responsible for 70000 to 100,000 deaths worldwide each year), the actions that can be taken to prevent and treat (reverse) opioid overdose...
Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs-2014
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014 This evidence-based guide help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use. This document updates Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2007. This...
Prevention Status Report 2013: Tobacco Use, RI
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014 This report highlights the status of select policies and practices that can help Rhode Island prevent or reduce smoking or exposure to secondhand smoke. These policies and practices include increasing state cigarette...
Prevention Status Report 2013: Prescription Drug Overdose, Rhode Island
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2014 Deaths from prescription drug overdoses, particularly overdoses of prescription painkillers, have skyrocketed over the past decade. CDC and other agencies are working to identify and evaluate interventions to reduce...