Tools

The Cost is Too High: Marijuana is Addictive

The Barrington Adult Youth Team Against Alcohol and Drug Use (Poster) - About 1 in 6 people who start smoking marijuana in their teens will become addicted. - Marijuana is the number one reason RI teens are admitted for inpatient treatment of illicit drug abuse.

Prescription Drug Overdose

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention, April 3rd 2015 Sometimes, the prescription becomes the problem. Each day, 44 people die from prescription opioid overdose. It’s time we all get involved. Challenge assumptions about prescription opioids, and patient...

E-Cigarettes: Behind the Marketing

Scholastic, 2015 You may have noticed that marketing for e-cigarettes seems to be more common than advertising for tobacco cigarettes. That’s because many types of ads for tobacco products are banned, but e-cigarettes don’t yet fall under the same rules. Marketers for...

Transgender Youth and Health Disparity

Community Commons According to the Missouri Health Equity Collaboration (MOHEC) site, “Transgender is an umbrella term used to describe people whose gender identity (sense of themselves as male or female) or gender expression differs from that usually associated with...

Racial Equity Resources

National Collaborative for Health Equity The mission of the National Collaborative is to promote health equity by catalyzing collaboration among racial equity advocates, grassroots and community-based organizations, researchers, public health professionals, and other...

CAPT Online Learning

SAMHSA's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT), 2015 SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT) offers a menu of online courses designed to help substance abuse prevention practitioners working at the state-,...

Above the Influence Toolkit

Above the Influence The new Above the Influence (ATI) Toolkit enhances the existing ATI program efforts and furthers its goals with new individual and group activities that can help teens make healthier decisions, with the support of adults who value them. The new...