Prevention is a community effort. We no longer live in a culture where there are off limit subjects. As a society, we can teach age-appropriate prevention. Children of parents who talk to their teens ...

Prevention remains one of the most effective and cost-conscious tools we have in our fight against the drug crisis. This National Prevention Week, we urge lawmakers to renew their investments in ...

In the region, the definition of “high-risk drug use”/“problem drug use” is limited to “current injecting drug use” due to ...

HANCOCK COUNTY — Officials who battle drug addiction and drug crimes on a daily basis want people to know this week has been Red Ribbon Week — a time set aside to raise awareness for drug prevention ...

U.S. House Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-Grand Junction) is among a Congressional group backing the Youth Substance Prevention and ...

Kathleen Ratcliff, executive director for Upstream Prevention, discusses substance use disorder during the “Responding to Addiction” workshop Sept. 26 at the Greenwood Public Library. The goal of the ...

Alcohol, drug and vape use are decreasing among students in Summit and Wasatch counties, following a statewide trend.

Emily Green is the managing editor of The Lund Report and the lead reporter on the series. She and Amelia Templeton, OPB’s health reporter, join us to talk about what they heard from district ...

Alex Li was a health reporter with Side Effects Public Media based at WFYI in Indianapolis, Ind. Li was a young and bright journalist with contagious passion and commitment to his job. He was a ...

From the outset, 2025 has been a fruitful and exciting year for the Youth Initiative, with its reach expanding and its ...

The film discusses the growing issue of drug addiction, emphasizing the psychological reasons behind substance abuse rather than the substances themselves. It identifies various demographic groups ...

PEP and PrEP will be available over the counter. Californians, starting next year, will be able to access HIV prevention medications without a prescription. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law on ...