Prevention

Stopping Drug Use Before It Starts
Deterring Drug Use by Changing Attitudes
The goal of prevention is to stop substance use before it ever begins. Believing not only in this mission but in our ability to achieve it, this Administration outlined a strategy 6 years ago that called upon multiple sectors of society—parents, schools, employers, communities, and the media—to help Americans, and youth in particular, take a stand against drugs. More

Highlights

• ONDCP to Host Random Student Drug Testing Summits in October
• $5.8 Million in New Drug Prevention Grants to Aid 49 Schools in 20 States
• ONDCP's Media Campaign Continues to Push Against Meth with New National Radio, Online and Print Campaign, and Targeted Local Television Ads
• Teen "Self Medication" for Depression Leads to More Serious Mental Illness, New Report Reveals
• ONDCP Launches American Indian Anti-Meth Campaign

Programs

• National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
• Drug Free Communities Support Program
• Random Student Drug Testing

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Frequently Asked Questions

• Do you have prevention publications and resources that are available to order?
• What is the Drug Prevention News Wire?
• What is the Drug Free Communities program?

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Publications

• What Works: Effective Public Health Responses to Drug Use
• Prescription for Danger: A Report on Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drug Abuse Among the Nation's Teens
• Strategies for Success: New Pathways to Drug Abuse Prevention, Issue II, Volume I Fall/Winter 2007

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Related Links

• Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
• Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPT)
• Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA)

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