Scituate FACTS needed data to better understand caregiver attitudes and behaviors toward underage substance use. PS@EDC helped them get it.

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 glossary offers an introduction to the key players in primary care.

This tool summarizes key takeaways from a CAPT webinar exploring the intersection of opioid overdose prevention and harm reduction—and how developing a cultural understanding of each discipline’s philosophy and work can facilitate healthy collaborations between them.

Every day in the U.S, nearly 200 people die from opioid-related overdoses. Even more widespread than fatal overdoses are non-fatal overdoses. People who survive one overdose are twice as likely to die from a future one.

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.

Naloxone access laws make naloxone easier to obtain by expanding how the medication can be distributed beyond traditional prescriptions. This document describes the aims of naloxone access laws and the various forms they can take.

This decision support tool summarizes information from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies on factors that have been shown to either increase risk of or protect against the non-medical use of prescription drugs, based on articles published between 2006 and 2012.

This at-a-glance chart provides a quick look at prevention strategies that have been shown to directly address common risk factors associated with prescription drug misuse.

This decision support tool provides brief summaries of prevention strategies and associated programs that have been evaluated to determine their effects on the non-medical use of prescription drugs, including an overview of the relevant literature, descriptions of individual studies, and guidelines for using this information to inform prevention planning efforts.