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.
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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...
Marijuana Talk Kit: What you need to know to talk with your teen about marijuana
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids Marijuana — legal or otherwise — is a hot topic. It’s more important than ever for parents to protect their kids’ health and development by addressing this issue early and often. That’s why we created this talk kit. We want to help...
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...
Embracing Equity: 7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity and Inclusion Within Your Organization
Annie E. Casey Foundation, January 2015 Advancing race equity and inclusion can sometimes seem daunting and often leaves many wondering how and where to start. One way to achieve social change in an organization is to incorporate race equity and inclusion at every...
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...
E-Cigarette Education Products
Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California (TECC)
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...