Prevention Blog

After a startling increase in opioid overdoses and deaths during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are again seeing a decrease. There were a total of 837 overdoses in Anne Arundel County [...]

Children and teens face a variety of challenges in their daily lives. They can be asked to deal with adapting to a new classroom or virtual learning, bullying by peers, neighborhood violence, or even [...]

Vincent Jackson had a successful twelve-year NFL career. His Jackson in Action 83 Foundation supports military families by providing tools and resources to help parents maintain close bonds with their children, even when they [...]

The National Council for Mental Wellbeing presented a webinar, Getting Candid:Framing the Conversation Around Youth Substance Use Prevention to provide youth serving organizations and providers with the tools to facilitate engaging prevention messages. You can [...]

By insisting on identifying as a perfectionist, I have created a fantasy that might one day attain an elusive, ideal state of being. A place from which I can operate with pure ease, and [...]

At this gift-giving time of year, lottery scratch off tickets are a popular and easy gift to slip into a stocking or a present. Holiday lottery tickets are designed to be festive, boasting bright [...]

There is a body of research explaining some of the risk and protective factors to prevent substance misuse. For those of you readers that are not in the field of prevention, risk factors are [...]

The Anne Arundel County Substance Misuse Prevention Coalitions are proud to announce the accomplishment of our North County Coalition, Northern Lights Against Substance Abuse (NLASA)! Northern Lights Against Substance Misuse: 21st Century Education Foundation [...]

On November 11th each year, the US observes Veterans Day to honor those who have served in the Armed Forces.  It is a day, according to the Congressional Act making it a legal holiday, dedicated [...]