2025 Red Ribbon Campus Video PSA Contest

View the full contest rules for the 2025 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, open through November 3.

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The Stories of Logan & Cade

This video, produced by the Love, Logan Foundation, tells the story of two college students who died after unknowingly taking counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl. Logan’s and Cade’s parents discuss their efforts to educate college students on the dangers around counterfeit pills and the signs of fentanyl poisoning.

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'Be in the Know' Campaign Shows What's Possible via Collaboration

Alisa Cunningham is a Wellness Division commander for the Counter Narcotic Alliance-AZHIDTA, Mayra Jeffery is an outreach and education programming overseer for the Division of Community Mental Health and Addiction at the Pima County Health Department, and Jaime Burnett is a public health analyst for Overdose Response Strategy at the CDC Foundation. In this month’s article, they discuss an awareness campaign and training to empower students to prevent overdoses and intervene effectively.

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Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Sherrá Watkins

The guest on this encore episode of Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Sherrá Watkins, Ph.D., Vice President for Health and Wellness at The University of Utah. During the interview, Dr. Watkins discusses progress made and remaining challenges to reduce stigma around substance use disorders, especially among college students; ways in which the prevention field can work to increase cultural competence when it comes to new professionals; how the field can transcend alcohol and drug misuse prevention from being solely a student affairs issue to a broader institutional issue; and more!

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DEA Releases 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment

The Drug Enforcement Administration has released the 2025 National Drug Threat Assessment, DEA’s comprehensive review of the threats posed to the United States by deadly illicit drugs and the violent domestic and international drug trafficking organizations responsible for producing and trafficking the drugs poisoning our communities.

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Congratulations, 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest Winners!

Congratulations to Kennesaw State University, Baylor University, and the University of Utah for winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, cosponsored by DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Check out the schools' winning entries.

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'Prevention With Purpose' 2024 Edition Out Now

The Drug Enforcement Administration presents the 2024 edition of "Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students". In this 2024 edition of the guide – first published in 2020 – you will find updated data, profiles highlighting real-life stories from campus prevention professionals focused on a unique or innovative approach to the Strategic Prevention Framework, ideas for building considerations of cultural factors into each step of the SPF, and five strategies for success during times of disruption to campus life.

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Campuses Promote DEA's One Pill Can Kill Campaign

Schools across the nation have started to rally around the effort to educate their campuses and local communities about the issue. Is your school using ‘One Pill Can Kill’ materials to get the word out about counterfeit pills? If so, let us know!

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Logan's parents (Photo credit: YouTube/Love, Logan)

The Stories of Logan & Cade

This video, produced by the Love, Logan Foundation, tells the story of two college students who died after unknowingly taking counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl. Logan’s and Cade’s parents discuss their efforts to educate college students on the dangers around counterfeit pills and the signs of fentanyl poisoning.

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Introduction: Prevention with Purpose Web Series

Rich Lucey, Senior Prevention Program Manager at the Drug Enforcement Administration, talks about this new web series that highlights each step of the Strategic Prevention Framework.

2024 Red Ribbon Campus Video PSA Contest Winner (Photo credit: YouTube/Drug Enforcement Administration)

Congratulations, 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest Winners!

Congratulations to Kennesaw State University, Baylor University, and the University of Utah for winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, cosponsored by DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

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