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This interactive, self-paced online tool is designed to educate prevention professionals about factors influencing excessive drinking in adulthood. It presents a detailed exploration of the latest research, organized according to the four levels of the CDC’s Social-Ecological Model (SEM)—individual, relationship, community, and societal.
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This tool equips prevention practitioners with essential insights into the unique challenges and opportunities of addressing substance use in rural communities. By defining "rural," outlining substance use patterns, and identifying key barriers like isolation and limited resources, it helps practitioners develop tailored strategies to effectively reduce substance use and improve health outcomes in rural settings.
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This resource offers best practices for planning, implementing, and evaluating data dashboards in substance misuse prevention. It covers defining scope, understanding audience needs, choosing technology, selecting data sources, incorporating user-friendly design, and evaluating the dashboard’s effectiveness to support data-driven decision-making and community impact.
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This tool provides prevention planners with evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce high-risk alcohol use among young adults (18-25).
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This guide supports strategic prevention planning for American Indian and Alaska Native communities by identifying culturally informed programs that reduce substance misuse and promote mental health. It includes 85 programs evaluated using both Western and Indigenous methods, categorized by documented outcomes, target populations, and settings to help tribes select effective, culturally responsive interventions.
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This tool explores how multiple epidemics, influenced by environmental factors, interact to exacerbate health issues like substance misuse. Emphasizing collaboration and environmental context, this resource delves into the implications for substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and offers prevention professionals strategies for developing a syndemic-informed approach to improve community health outcomes.
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This toolkit guides prevention practitioners in establishing and sustaining data workgroups essential for data-informed decision-making. These workgroups, integral to SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework, locate, analyze, and disseminate crucial substance misuse data.
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This toolkit equips prevention practitioners with the tools and guidance needed to conduct effective focus groups, fostering open dialogue, and gathering valuable insights from diverse stakeholders. By integrating focus groups throughout the prevention process and developing clear protocols, practitioners can tailor discussions to address specific community needs and inform evidence-based strategies.
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The Institute of Medicine's continuum of care categorizes behavioral health services into four areas: promotion, prevention, treatment, and recovery. This resource explores how these services align, offering support from promoting wellness to aiding in long-term recovery. It provides a structured framework for addressing substance misuse across various stages of care, ensuring comprehensive support for individuals and communities.
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This tool provides information on data sources and measures to help practitioners understand the non-medical use of prescription drugs in their communities.
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This tool offers a comprehensive listing of available data resources and surveys developed by and for a range of federal agencies and that collect data on marijuana use and its consequences.
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This tool provides information on how national surveys measure youth marijuana use, as well as factors and consequences associated with such use.
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This resource is designed to help epidemiological workgroups re-conceptualize their purpose and function, drawing on lessons learned from experienced workgroup members.
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This tool presents case examples of fictional communities each dealing with distinct challenges related to opioid misuse and overdoses. It outlines how these communities applied the five steps of the SPF to tackle their opioid-related issues, providing insights into addressing the epidemic and informing future strategic planning efforts for prevention practitioners.
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This tool provides a comprehensive guide on the use and accessibility of naloxone, a life-saving medication for reversing opioid overdoses. It discusses the current state of naloxone access, including types of access laws, liability protections, and the future of over-the-counter availability. The guide also addresses non-legal barriers to naloxone access, such as knowledge gaps, attitudes, values, beliefs, and logistical challenges. Additionally, it outlines strategies to overcome these barriers and considers additional factors like polysubstance use and naloxone dosing.
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This tool presents a four-step model that SEW chairs—or others responsible for creating or rebuilding their SEWs—can use to strengthen or revitalize their epidemiological workgroups.
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This infographic provides a concise overview of SAMHSA's substance use and behavioral health TTA centers, clarifying the distinct roles of the various centers such as SPTAC and PTTCs. Its purpose is to assist grantees in effectively accessing the appropriate SAMHSA prevention resources.
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This tool helps practitioners in locating data on risk factors for opioid overdose and offers insights into various risk factors, data sources, and indicators related to opioid use and misuse. It helps practitioners better understand and target their prevention efforts, identify new data sources, find proxy measures for specific factors when direct data is unavailable, and identify potential partners who collect relevant data.