TOPIC: Substance Abuse Prevention and Intervention

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Articles

• Creating School and Community Partnerships for Substance Abuse Prevention Programs

Newsletter

• Substance Abuse Prevention: Toward Comprehensive, Multifaceted Approaches

Policy and Practice Reports

• Youth Substance Use Interventions: Where Do they Fit into a School's Mission?
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice Notes & Information Resources

• Adolescent Marijuana Use
• Prescription Drugs Abuse Among Youth
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health: What’s a School to Do?
• Benzodiazepine: A Much Abused Drug
• Neglect Experienced by Children of Substance Abusing Parents: Implications for Schools

Resource Aid Packets

• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools
• Students and Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
• Substance Abuse

Technical Assistance Sampler

• Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning

Prevention
• Application of Environmental Sensitivity Theories in Personalized Prevention for Youth Substance Abuse: A Transdisciplinary Translational Perspective
• Community Monitoring Systems: Tracking and Improving the Well-being of America's Children and Adolescents (2007) National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Combining in-school and community-based media effort: reducing marijuana and alcohol uptake among younger adolescents
• Getting Candid: Framing the Conversation around Youth Substance Use Prevention
• Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General's Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health
• Factors associated with adoption of evidence-based substance use prevention curricula in US school districts
• Family-Focused Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence
• National Drug Facts Week Website
• Predictors of Initiation of Alcohol Use Among US Adolescents
• Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide for Parents, Educators, and Community Leaders
• Preventing Youth Substance Use: A Review of Thirteen Programs
• Substance Abuse and Youth: An Overview and the Role of Educators
• Tips for Parents on Keeping Children Drug Free
• What Are the True Benefits of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs?

Treatment

• Culturally Sensitive Substance Use Treatment for Racial/Ethnic Minority Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review
• Effectiveness of a web-based tobacco product use prevention videogame intervention on young adolescents’ beliefs and knowledge
• Improving Access and Care for Youth Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions
• Prescription Drugs: Abuse and Addiction
• Principles of Adolescent Substance Use Disorder Treatment: A Research-Based Guide

Reports

• The impact of parental substance use disorder and other family-related problems on school related outcomes
• Monitoring the Future Survey
• NIDA High School Curriculum-The Brain: Understanding Neurobiology through the study of addiction.
• The mediating role of impulsivity in the associations between child maltreatment types and past month substance use
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities, Referral Source and Attrition From Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment Among Adolescents in the United States
• Substance abuse program ratings
• A Systematic Review of Qualitative Studies Exploring Lived Experiences, Perceived Impact, and Coping Strategies of Children and Young People Whose Parents Use Substances

General

• Drug Abuse Hotline
• Prescription Drug Addiction and Abuse
• Fentanyl Addiction, Abuse, and Symptoms
• Meth Addiction: Dangers & Side Effects
• Children's beliefs about substance use: An examination of age differences in implicit and explicit cognitive precursors of substance use initiation. (2007) R. O'Conner, et al., Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 21(4)525-533
• Family-Focused Interventions to Prevent Substance Use Disorders in Adolescence: A Workshop
• Get Smart About Drugs: A DEA Resource for Parents, Educators, and Care Givers
• Child Welfare Workers Toolkit
• NIDA InfoFacts: Inhalants
• Media Awareness: A School Guide
• Multi-language Resources on Substance Abuse Treatment Materials
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• National Institute on Drug Abuse website for teens
• National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse
• Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder and Other Substance Use among Adolescents and Young Adults in Medicaid/CHIP, 2015-2019
• Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders
• The Role of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Substance Misuse and Related Behavioral Health Problems
• Role of Parental, School, and Peer Groups in Prevention of Substance Abuse
• Socioeconomic Status, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescent Substance Use
• Substance Use in School-Aged Children
• Understanding Adolescent Inhalent Use
• Who is this kid? To help parents grasp teen behavior and connect with their kids (2008)

Related Agencies and Websites

• AddictionSearch.com
• Alcohol Policy Information System
• Center for Science in the Public Interest Alcohol Policies Project
• Center for Substance Abuse Research
• Free to Grow
• Healthy People Website (DHHS)
• Monitoring the Future
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Partnership for a Drug-Free America: Drug Free Resource Net
• SAMHSA's substance abuse treatment 24-hour helpline
• The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

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