Used with permission. © Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Learn more at www.drugfree.org. Hardly a week goes by without another news article about vaping. In 2014, vaping was selected as Oxford Dictionary’s word of the year, beating out other candidates like...
Some of you may have heard about Red Ribbon Week through your children’s schools, or perhaps you’ve participated in a Red Ribbon Week campaign yourself. Either way, here is everything that you need to know about Red Ribbon Week 2018. Red Ribbon Week is held...
Used with permission. © Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Learn more at www.drugfree.org. Sometimes you simply need a one-on-one connection. The Partnership fo Drug-Free Kids has trained and caring master’s-level specialists ready to help any parent struggling with a...
Used with permission. © Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Learn more at www.drugfree.org. Deaths from fentanyl and other synthetic opioids (not including methadone), rose a staggering 72 percent in just one year, from 2014 to 2015. Government agencies and officials of...
You may have noticed an increase in ads and products promoting CBD oil lately, but you may not know what CBD oil actually is. CBD stands for Cannabidiol oil, and is the non-psychoactive component of marijuana. What that means is that you cannot “get high” off CBD...
Used with permission. © Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Learn more at www.drugfree.org. With the recent Monitoring the Future Study release indicating that nearly one in three 12th graders reported using a vaping device in the past year, it’s imperative that parents...
Used with permission. © Partnership for Drug-Free Kids. Learn more at www.drugfree.org. Narcan (naloxone) is a FDA approved prescription medicine that can block the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose. When a person is overdosing on an opioid (heroin, fentanyl...
What the Surgeon General Says About Opioids The opioid epidemic in the United States has been a hot topic lately, especially in the drug prevention world. But what exactly is an opioid? An opioid is a drug that is typically used for pain relief. Opioids can be...
Lately we have been hearing a lot about the opioid epidemic in the United States and how serious it is, but what’s going on with other substances? Although a big focus has been placed on the many harmful consequences of opioid addiction, it is important that we don’t...
Electronic cigarettes are nothing new to the youth and adults in our community. Over the past few years the use of e-cigarettes and “vaping” has steadily increased. The new craze in the electronic cigarette world is a brand named Juul. Juul is unlike other...