Prevention After Natural Disasters
March 2018
SAMHSA’s Emergency Mental Health
and Traumatic Stress Services
Drug Free Highlands, Sebring, Florida
“We are looking at a better way to get in front of these natural
disasters or community tragedies as it relates to mental health
and substance misuse, because what happens is our mental
health deteriorates and then that’s when addictions come into
play.”
— Aisha Alayande, Drug Free Highlands
Prevention of Youth Marijuana Use
April 2018
SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of
Prevention Technologies (CAPT)
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Oregon Public Health Division
“Prevention best practice tells us to go deep, not just wide. Its
multiple strategies aimed at impacting one factor are more
likely to be effective when supported by the evidence and
they have both practical and conceptual fits to our initial risk
factor.”
— Gisela Rots, SAMHSA’s Center for the Application of
Prevention Technologies
Partnering for Opioid Addiction
Prevention
May 2018
SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse
Prevention
CDC’s National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control
American Society of Addiction
Medicine
“Prevention and response really does take a coordinated effort,
and that includes communities, health care providers, public
health, law enforcement, and all other sectors to really address
this ongoing problem.”
— LeShaundra Cordier, CDC’s National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
2018 OUTCOMES REPORT
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