Prevention Providers & Educators

Prescription Drug Abuse: Older Adults

National Institute on Drug Abuse, 2014 Persons aged 65 years and older comprise only 13 percent of the population, yet account for more than one-third of total outpatient spending on prescription medications in the United States. Older patients are more likely to be...

Juggling Multiple Medications? What You Can Do to Stay Safe

National Council on Patient Information and Education, 2011 If you are like most people over 65, you’re taking several different medications every day. You probably also see several healthcare professionals, manage at least one chronic condition and use more than one...

DEA Announces 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back

Drug Enforcement Administration, 2015 DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg today announced that the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back will take place September 26th from 10 am-2 pm local time in every state but Pennsylvania and Delaware, where the event...

The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress

Surgeon General, 2014 Fifty years after the release of the first Surgeon General’s report warning of the health hazards of smoking, we have learned how to end the tobacco epidemic. Over the past five decades, scientists, researchers and policy makers have determined...

CSAP Strategies

The CSAP Strategies are methods or mechanisms of substance abuse prevention delivery. All six strategies are met under the MOD.

Start Here Go Big Posters

Ponaganset High School and Citizens and Students Together, 2015 Posters from the Asset Building Campaign at Ponaganset High School.