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Podcasts

Prevention Profiles: Take Five is a podcast series that was launched in January 2018. Each episode is posted monthly and features interviews with individuals at the federal, national, state, and local levels, based around five questions related to preventing drug use and misuse among college students.
Stevan Veldkamp

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Stevan Veldkamp

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Stevan Veldkamp, Ed.D., Executive Director of Penn State’s Timothy J. Piazza Center for Fraternity and Sorority Research. During the interview, Dr. Veldkamp discusses current research findings on alcohol and drug use trends among fraternity and sorority members, the Piazza Center’s recently released 2025 Hazing Prevention Review for Campuses and Organizations, research surrounding well-being and belonging in the fraternity and sorority community that can guide the work of prevention professionals on college and university campuses and in their surrounding communities, and more!
Whitney O'Regan

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Whitney O'Regan

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Dr. Whitney O’Regan, Director of Prevention and Safety Initiatives on the Health, Safety, and Well-being team at NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. During the interview, Dr. O’Regan discusses how upper-level administrators can provide leadership in preventing drug use and misuse among college students,  how a sense of belonging and engagement connects to a campus’ prevention efforts, benefits to entering the DEA’s and SAMHSA’s Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, and more!
Rebecca Caldwell

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Rebecca Caldwell

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Dr. Rebecca Caldwell, Director for Residential Well-being at Virginia Tech. During the interview, Dr. Caldwell discusses her role on campus and her vision for the students’ well-being, how to ensure issues such as alcohol and drug misuse do not get lost in conversations about overall wellness and well-being, what was top of mind for her as she transitioned to new campuses in new roles, and more!
2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest Winners

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Haley Farrell-Kissun, Jose Vallejo, and Sydney Holcomb

This month’s guests on Prevention Profiles: Take Five are Haley Farrell-Kissun, a senior majoring in media and entertainment at Kennesaw State University; Jose Vallejo, Assistant Director of Collegiate Recovery, Baylor University; and Sydney Holcomb, Content Specialist in the Center for Campus Wellness, University of Utah. These guests represent the three winning campuses of the 2024 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest sponsored by DEA and SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. During the interview, Haley, Jose, and Sydney discuss why their campuses decided to enter the contest last year, how they came up with the idea/concept behind their PSAs, the benefits to entering the contest, and more!
Pat Zuber-Wilson

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Pat Zuber-Wilson

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Pat Zuber-Wilson, Associate Commissioner, Division of Prevention and Gambling Services at the New York State Office of Addiction Services and Supports. During the interview, Pat provides advice for campus-based prevention professionals who have difficulty engaging their state agency that deals with drug misuse prevention, discusses her agency’s efforts to prevent drug use and misuse among college students, talks about the ways in which her agency is helping to raise awareness around the dangers of fake pills and illicit fentanyl, and more!

Please visit the following link to access public awareness materials regarding fentanyl overdoses from New York State's Office of Addiction Services and Supports:

https://oasas.ny.gov/public-awareness

Dr. Sherra Watkins

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Sherrá Watkins

This month’s guest on 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 diversity, equity, and inclusion 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!
Luoluo Hong

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Luoluo Hong

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Luoluo Hong, Ph.D., Vice President for Student Engagement and Well-Being at Georgia Institute of Technology. During the interview, Dr. Hong discusses how to help ensure preventing drug use does not get overlooked in conversations about overall health and well-being, ways in which upper-level administrators in student affairs can provide leadership in preventing drug use among college students, how the work of inclusion intersects with well-being in general and specifically in preventing drug use, and more!
Dessa Bergen-Cico

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dessa Bergen-Cico

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Dessa Bergen-Cico, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Public Health and Coordinator of the Addiction Studies Program, at Syracuse University. During the interview, Dr. Bergen-Cico discusses how prevention in the higher education space has evolved since the early 1990s, how preventing drug use among college students can transcend being seen solely as a student affairs issue to a broader public health issue, some of the challenges faculty members face when it comes to drug use among college students, and more!
Oliver Tacto

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Oliver Tacto

This month’s episode of Prevention Profiles: Take Five is an encore episode of Rich Lucey’s interview with Oliver Tacto, Ph.D., Dean of Student Wellness at Maryville University. During the interview, Dr. Tacto discusses the university’s Eight Dimensions of Wellness and how they align with preventing drug use among the university’s students; how to ensure issues such as drug use, prescription drug misuse, and impaired driving do not get lost in overall wellness and well-being efforts; and more!
Kelly Truesdell

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Kelly Truesdell

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Kelly Truesdell, Assistant Director of The Fontaine Center at the University of Georgia. During the interview, Kelly discusses why the Strategic Prevention Framework is beneficial to colleges and universities, strategies for sustaining programs and initiatives on campus, skill-building strategies for staff, and more!
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