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National Institute on Drug Abuse sent this bulletin at 10/30/2024 10:00 AM EDT

Educational Tools to Raise Awareness on Teen Substance Use and Drug Overdose Prevention

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Make a difference for the young people in your community by joining the 15th annual National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week^® (NDAFW)! For the upcoming 2025 observance, NIDA is featuring new content focused on improving awareness and prevention of youth substance use and overdose deaths to help schools and communities across the country stay safe.

Now’s your chance to get involved and make a positive impact. Learn how to recognize and respond to an overdose and help empower youth to make informed decisions about drugs and their health with NIDA’s latest resource offerings for NDAFW and beyond.

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Understanding an Overdose and How to Respond to One

This lesson focuses on recognizing and responding to an overdose. Through the interactive exercises in the lesson, students can demonstrate their awareness of overdose symptoms and how to respond and save a life.

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Understanding Polysubstance Use and How to Make Healthy Choices

This lesson helps equip teens with skills to make healthy choices in challenging situations and helps them understand the risks of polysubstance use, or the mixing of two or more substances, through interactive exercises.

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Register for NDAFW and Realize Your Impact

By participating in NDAFW, you’re:

Joining hundreds of communities across the U.S. and around the world.
Sharing the science on substance use and addiction.
Learning lifesaving skills focused on overdose awareness and response.
Empowering youth to make informed choices about their health.

Register for NDAFW

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Find Inspiration for Your NDAFW Event

Start planning your involvement in NDAFW, taking place March 17-23, 2025, with resources from NIDA and the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

The activity ideas page was recently refreshed and organized to better support your NDAFW event preparations and ongoing efforts to inspire dialogue on alcohol and other drugs with young people in your community.

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Webinar Feature: States Telling Their Prevention Story

Join SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 3-4 p.m. ET, to learn about how states are advancing prevention (and telling their prevention story) — as well as recent data, trends, and CSAP’s prevention resources.

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