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Learn about both the challenges and opportunities created by the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use, opioid overdose, and treatment.

Our popular resource page showing healthy lifestyle guidelines for youth and young adults in the areas of physical activity, nutrition, sleep and stress control has just been updated.

These resources can be used by prevention and health...

Understanding protective factors and how to build strong healthy youth and families can help prevent youth from experiencing adverse childhood experiences and initiating into substance use. Check out and share our new video and resources to...

Session Objectives:

1. Explain the need for and benefits of integrating wellness promotion into substance use prevention.
2. Describe a marketing-related conceptual model and steps for creating integrated prevention with wellness content...

Goal: To gain knowledge and confidence to implement the program to youth with fidelity and efficacy.

Length: 60 minutes

View recorded webinar: https://youtu.be/dWpudV6mlKU

Request a program sample: https://preventionpluswellness...

In 2012, Washington State University became the first to offer a PhD in Prevention Science. 

The curriculum is designed to ensure that students both

(a) receive broad, interdisciplinary training in the area of prevention science; and

(b)...

This resource highlights the dangers of fentanyl and fentanyl analogs including fentanyl being the driver behind the opioid-related deaths in the U.S., potency, their use as adulterants and in making counterfeit pills, common routes of...

The opioid epidemic has resulted in significant increases in Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) among people who inject drugs, accounting for 23% of new infections. HCV is completely curable and testing and treatment are the path to cure. Opioid...

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To combat the growing opioid epidemic, people who use drugs need access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) as part of comprehensive treatment. Despite progress, treatment gaps remain. Our objective was to use...

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Importance: An important consequence of cannabis legalization is the potential increase in the number of cannabis-impaired drivers on roads, which may result in higher rates of traffic-related injuries and fatalities. To date...

Session Objectives:

1. Examine public health elements to substance use Prevention Plus Wellness programming. 
2. Identify the prevention program topics and youth groups and training formats you are most interested in.
3. Create a public health...

Session Objectives:

1. Describe step-by-step methods for providing Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) programs live online to youth individually and in groups.
2. List step-by-step methods for providing PPW programs by recorded video & telephone...

Session Objectives:

1. Explore the contents in the Vaping and Marijuana Prevention Plus Wellness (PPW) program manuals for high school, middle school and elementary school-aged youth.
2. Compare scripts for providing Vaping and Marijuana PPW...

Substance use disorders threaten the health and safety of work environments. The most effective way to prevent drug and alcohol related consequences in the workplace is through a comprehensive drug-free workplace program.