Kentucky colleges launch initiative to reduce drug and alcohol abuse on campus. Several Kentucky universities and colleges have come together with the Kentucky Distillers Association for the launch of ...

Advocates say education is key to preventing addiction as the opioid and fentanyl crisis continues.

MISSION VIEJO, Calif. (KABC) -- A new way of teaching an important message is spreading across Orange County. " Above the Influence" teaches 5th and 6th graders across Orange County that poor choices ...

The Arizona Criminal Justice Commission has awarded more than $600,000 in grants to 13 criminal justice agencies and nonprofit organizations with the goal of reaching youth and young adults through ...

WASHINGTON, March 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) will come to Houston on March 9 to inform physicians and the public about buprenorphine, a ...

LOWELL — Riverbend and Lowell High School have entered into a partnership to provide substance use programming to students with a focus on both education and substance use prevention. The partnership ...

More than 60 percent of the women in Oklahoma's prisons have been identified as in need of substance abuse treatment, but few will be able to enter a program, according to a 2010 state report on ...

Having watched family members struggle with substance use disorders, recent University of Minnesota Twin Cities graduate Madelyn Blake wanted to change the way addiction is treated and discussed. Now, ...

The state Education Department and the state Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services has issued updated joint guidance and resources for school districts to assist with addressing substance ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — Wiping her tears away, Maria Petty testified in Olympia before the house committee on education, sharing her family's tragic story with state lawmakers. "I'm a mother of four," Petty ...

Members of the substance abuse recovery community from Surry County recently attended the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA) 35th Annual National Leadership Forum held in Maryland.

PROVIDENCE – Fewer high schoolers in Rhode Island are turning to alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana and vaping. They are also riding less with people who are driving under the influence, as well as ...