Colorado Department of Education, Dr. Thustone, 2012 This fact sheet highlights how marijuana affects children and their ability to learn.
Prevention Providers & Educators
What is SBIRT and Why Use It
Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Joe Hyde's presentation slides: introduce Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) as a comprehensive, integrated, public health approach to the delivery of clinically-preventative, early...
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...
Overview of Dual Diagnosis Treatment
Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Dr. John Rodolico's presentation slides: provide an introduction and foundation to motivational interviewing. Dr. Rodolico also presents the importance of client buy-in and desire to change.
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,...
Identifying and Treating Co-Occurring Disorders
Rhode Island Student Assistance Services 2013 Conference Pamela Messore's presentation slides: familiarize clinicians with identification and treatment of co-occurring disorders. Particular attention is given to Avis 1 diagnoses, teenage substance abuse, and both...
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...
Evaluation 101: The Fundamentals of Coalition Evaluation
The Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America The introductory webinar “Evaluation 101: The Fundamentals of Coalition Evaluation,” provides coalition leaders and members with a critical framework for learning the basics of coalition evaluation and the ways in which...