Resources

This practice-support tool provides summaries of interventions that help young people develop abilities and attitudes necessary to succeed and thrive.

This presentation presents three models of post-overdose interventions, highlighting the role of prevention practitioners in supporting these strategies.

Learn about the potential challenges to obtaining useful epidemiological and other data during prevention planning.

Cocaine use in the United States has begun to rise in the past few years, and indicators suggest it will continue to rise, at greater levels, in the coming years. This issue brief is designed to help prevention practitioners better understand and prevent this growing problem.

Presents resources for preparing first responders to distribute and/or administer naloxone, including community-based programs; prescribers and pharmacists; and law enforcement, firefighters, and emergency medical services.

This practice-support tool identifies the different agencies responsible for prescribing and distributing prescription opioids in a community.

This resource describes recent trends in and factors associated with heroin use, including the non-medical use of prescription opioids. To facilitate substance misuse prevention planning at the state and local levels, the brief also includes information on data sources for heroin-related indicators and strategies that show promise in reducing rates of heroin use and overdose.

An at-a-glance resource to help prevention practitioners better understand and prevent the growing problem of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS).

Presents a list of 16 key data sources for prescription opioids and heroin to inform assessment and planning efforts.

This whitepaper presents five concrete steps businesses can take to support employees and colleagues affected by opioid use and establish a workplace that is safe, compassionate, and productive.