Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention – At the 2011 National 4-H Conference hundreds of youth from across the country came together to discuss issues and topics they were interested in affecting. In partnership with SAMHSA (Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration) youth learned about prescription drug abuse and identified gaps in current prevention efforts. The group of 16 delegates came up with potential solutions that the 4-H program can implement to help prevent prescription drug abuse and presented this information to administrators at SAMHSA on April 6th, 2011.

 

Getting the fix: Prescription drug abuse and prevention in Nevada outlined

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Getting the fix: Prescription drug abuse and prevention in Nevada outlined. By Wheeler Cowperthwaite [email protected]. Email Print · Copyright 2012 Nevada Appeal. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or …
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Reality Tour educational program to be presented

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Once again the Wayne Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse will offer the popular "Reality Tour," a tragic story of teen's heroin addiction, presented at no charge for parents and their children this year in grades six through eight. "A teen's …
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NH receives .6M grant drug, alcohol abuse prevention

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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is getting a $ 3.6 million federal grant to build on drug- and alcohol-abuse prevention efforts among young people. Joe Harding, director of the state health department's Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services Administration, …
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