Minnesota is home to a number of coalitions that work to reduce and prevent alcohol and other drug use throughout the state. This page includes a list of grantees along with their websites.
This Web-based resource center provides the general public, community leaders, and other interested people with the facts, knowledge, and tools to better understand and address marijuana in their communities. This resource center will be regularly updated and expanded to address emerging issues, research, and prevention tools, and highlight successful local efforts to reduce marijuana use.
This video provides science and data to help disprove many of the common ideas that support the notion that marijuana is a safe substance. A teacher's workbook is also included with a number of activity sheets.
2008, DVD, 21 Minutes
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The use of marijuana can produce adverse physical, mental, emotional, and behavioral effects. It can impair short-term memory and judgment and distort perception.
Program Sharing is Minnesota's premier conference showcasing effective prevention programs, practices and strategies around the issues of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and related violence (ATOD).
Researchers from the University of Washington and Virginia Tech have demonstrated that a brief, voluntary conversation with an adult led to up to a 20 percent decrease in marijuana use for teenagers who frequently used the drug.
CASA’s new national study declares teen smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using illegal drugs a public health problem of epidemic proportions.
Today, Gil Kerlikowske, Director of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) released the 2010 Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring Annual Report (ADAM II). The 2010 report reveals that nearly three-quarters (71 percent) of adult males arrested for crimes ranging from misdemeanors to felonies in Minneapolis tested positive for at least one drug, illustrating the link between drug use and crime and highlighting the importance of Obama Administration drug policies designed to break the cycle of drug use, arrest, incarceration, release, and re-arrest.
The 2010 National Drug Control Strategy was developed by ONDCP with input from Federal, State, and local partners. It provides a collaborative and balanced approach that emphasizes community-based prevention, integration of evidence-based treatment into the healthcare system, innovations in the criminal justice system, and international partnerships to disrupt drug trafficking organizations.
Recent data from SAMHSA indicate that 45.1 million adults (19.9 percent) in the United States had mental illness in the past year. Of those, nearly 20 percent of adults (8.9 million) also had a substance use disorder. This two-page article examines substance use disorders, suicidal ideation, and mental health statistics on youth.
Minnesota's Regional ATOD Prevention Coordinators (RPCs) support local communities in the prevention of alcohol, tobacco and other drug abuse (ATOD). To learn more about the RPCs and find out who represents your community please visit their website!
Many people do not understand why or how other people become addicted to drugs. It can be wrongfully assumed that drug abusers lack moral principles or willpower and that they could stop using drugs simply by choosing to change their behavior. In reality, drug addiction is a complex disease, and quitting takes more than good intentions
Full color 17"x22" poster reads: "You won't see Hilary getting high. You'll find her at the peak of her performance, with a dream of being a musician". My Anti-drug" campaign. It features a 12 year old Native American girl with a drum.
ontains information for teens about marijuana, including the way the drug affects the brain, short- and long- term health risks, and signs of marijuana use. Includes statistics about youth marijuana use. Q&A section dispels common myths about marijuana
The Minnesota Prevention Resource Center has collected a number of prevention PSAs that you can utilize when promoting prevention. The PSAs are available on our You Tube page.
CheckYourself.com is unique place for teens to think about their relationship with drugs and alcohol and to consider whether their use is turning into a problem for them. The site allows visitors to “look in the mirror” by answering quiz questions, reading stories, communicating with other teens, and sharing a “moment of truth.”
The Drug Guide at The Partnership at Drugfree.org is a comprehensive and up-to-date source of drug information, including drug descriptions, slang terms, short term- and long term- effects, images, federal classifications and more. The encyclopedic reference is frequently updated and reviewed by scientific experts, writers and editors.