Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Tackle the New Year with these Prevention Resources

 

Partnership to End Addiction
 

 

prevention and taking action early

There’s no better time than now to brush up on tips to help prevent your child or young adult from using or misusing drugs or alcohol in the new year.

Take a look at some of our research-backed prevention resources:

Review risk factors for addiction
Certain things make some people more vulnerable to addiction than others. Review the risk factors that increase a person’s risk that their substance use will progress to addiction.

Make sense of the teen brain
Understanding what's happening socially and developmentally — and how it can intersect with substance use — is fundamental to setting the stage for healthier outcomes.

Encourage taking healthy risks
By guiding your child toward healthy challenges, you can help them satisfy a desire for risk-taking, avoid negative consequences and bolster their confidence and leadership skills.

Learn prevention tips for any age
Having open, honest conversations is one of the most powerful ways to connect with your kids and help them develop into healthy adults.

Understand substances through our drug guide
This guide has substance-specific information to better prevent the use or misuse of the substances most accessible to teens and young adults.


View all of our prevention resources

 
 

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