Resources

This tool offers prevention practitioners an introduction to a public health approach called harm reduction. It describes how harm reduction approaches are being used to prevent the consequences of opioid misuse and explores the role of prevention practitioners in supporting these approaches.

This tool is designed to support prevention practitioners in using International Classification of Disease (ICD) codes to understand and describe the impact of opioid overdose in their communities.

Offers a brief introduction to prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs), highlighting how practitioners can use PDMP data to prevent prescription drug misuse in their states and communities.

Learn how to use process evaluation to determine if an intervention was implemented as planned and successfully reached the target population.

This tool highlights considerations for applying the Prevention Code of Ethics to your organization’s social media activities.

Learn about an effective framework for preventing alcohol use and suicide in Native American youth.

Explore some do’s and don’ts of videoconference participation.

Learn about the core components of evidence-based interventions and programs and why they matter to prevention efforts and outcomes.

Prevention practitioners often collaborate to maximize resources and/or fill resource gaps. This tool describes three types of prevention resources— fiscal, human, and organizational.

This resource presents three criteria for determining if an intervention is evidence-based.