Office of National Drug Control Policy, 2013 The Office of National Drug Control Policy recognizes four key areas in its approach to preventing substance abuse targeting: youth, parents, communities, and the workplace. Prevention works and it is necessary to continue...
Substance Abuse Prevention/Mental Health Promotion
Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults-Workshop Summary
Institute of Medicine, 2013 On May 7-8, 2013, the IOM and National Research Council held a workshop to bring together more than 250 researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and young adults to highlight research on the development, health, safety, and well-being of...
Implementation of the Communities That Care (CTC) Prevention System by Coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study (CYDS)
National Institute of Health, 2010 This paper compares 12 community prevention coalitions implementing the CTC system prevention coalitions located in the 12 control communities. The CYDS coalitions implemented significantly more of the CTC core intervention elements,...
A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts Update
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2013 This report presents facts about adolescent substance use, including information on the initiation of substance use, past year substance use, emergency department visits, and receipt of substance use...
Correlations between cannabis use and IQ change in the Dunedin cohort are consistent with confounding from socioeconomic status
Oxford University, 2012 This paper explores the correlation between cannabis use and IQ change. The authors study recent research on the Dunedin cohort with the intent of discerning whether the correlation between cannabis use and IQ change is actually causal.
A Core Institute Special Report: College Campus Alcohol and Other Drug Survey
Southern Illinois University, 2006 This report presents a theoretical framework for alcohol and other drug prevention strategies and benchmarks. This framework aims to help decision-makers think strategically about program design to create opportunities for college...
Suicide Prevention Resource Center Substance Abuse and Suicide Prevention Collaboration Continuum
This web-based resource designed to help suicide prevention programs in state, tribal, campus, and community settings build and strengthen connections with their substance abuse prevention and treatment counterparts. The Continuum contains a collection of practical...
Rhode Island Youth Suicide Prevention Project
RIYSPP implements evidence-based suicide prevention education programs in selected public schools and community-based organizations in Rhode Island that serve adolescents and their families.
North American Training Institute
The mission of the NATI is to provide information, facilitate research, and conduct professional training about gambling addiction. These efforts are primarily directed at those individuals considered to be at highest risk for developing a gambling problem, especially...
That’s Not Cool
This national public education campaign uses digital examples of controlling, pressuring, and threatening behavior to raise awareness about and prevent teen dating abuse. That’s Not Cool is sponsored and co-created by Futures Without Violence (formerly Family Violence...