Delivered January 24, 2019, this hour-long webinar explores the benefits of a comprehensive prevention approach and examples of successful implementation.

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

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

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.

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.

Access the executive summary overview of protective factors associated with substance use and misuse, and strategies that have been shown to be effective in addressing these factors among boys and young men of color.

Find summaries of studies that address binge and heavy episodic drinking among adolescents and young adults, as well as prevention strategies.

This tool provides brief summaries of programs and practices that have been evaluated to determine their effectiveness in preventing opioid misuse and overdose. It should be considered a resource for state and community prevention practitioners seeking information on interventions to address these problems in their communities.

This decision-support tool presents detailed descriptions of substance misuse prevention strategies and associated interventions that have been evaluated to determine their effects on youth marijuana use.

This resource provides an overview of this overdose prevention strategy, including the aims of these laws and types of protections they can offer. It also presents some of the obstacles that prevent overdose bystanders and the criminal justice system from applying their state’s Good Samaritan laws, and steps prevention practitioners can take to raise awareness of these laws among various target populations.