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Preventing Drug Use Among Children and Adolescents: A Research Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders (Second Edition)

National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2003 This guide for parents, educators, and community leaders focuses preventing youth drug use; this edition includes updated principles, new questions and answers, new program

Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategies to Stop the Epidemic 2013

Trust for America’s Health, 2013 This report reviews prescription drug abuse rates and trends, as well as examines state and national policies and recommendations to combat prescription drug

Pathways for Youth Strategic Plan

Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs, 2013 This strategic plan helps encourage federal collaboration to improve health outcomes for youth, especially for those who are most

Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, 2013 This toolkit equips communities and local governments with material to develop policies and practices to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. This toolkit

National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012 This report and detailed tables present a first look at results from the 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH),

National Academic Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention

Centers for Disease Control- National Center for Injury and Violence Control, Division of Violence Prevention This document provides statistics on youth violence and suggests methods of prevention, as well as

Monitoring the Future National Results on Drug Use: 2012 Overview, Key Findings on Adolescent Drug Use

Institute for Social Research, The University of Michigan, 2012 This survey encompassed about 45,400 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students in 395 secondary schools nationwide. The first published results are presented

Marijuana Fact Sheet

National Association of State Alcohol/Drug Abuse Directors, 2012 This fact sheet provides basic information about marijuana use including: number of users, addictive properties, health effects, economic effects, and prevention, treatment,

Marijuana Continues to be the Most Commonly Used Illicit Drug Among U.S. Residents; Non-medical Use of Prescription Drugs Decreases

Center for Substance Abuse Research at the University of Maryland, 2012 This document concludes that Marijuana continues to be the most widely used illicit drug in the U.S. The document

Literature Review (2006-2013): Strategies and Interventions for Reducing Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs

SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, 2013 This inventory includes an overview of the relevant literature, descriptions of individual studies, and guidelines for using the document to inform