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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.

Before the start of each academic year in higher education, there appear to be questions from incoming students and their families about how much college students drink alcohol.

Pulitzer Center grantee Elyse Wild shared her Pulitzer project on the opioid crisis in Native American communities with South Dakota State University students, faculty, and staff.

The nation’s colleges and universities have doubled down in recent years on their efforts to address the mental health crisis among their students.

The Santa Fe College Police Department is once again partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration for a Prescription Drug Take Back event, running from Thursday, April 24, through Sunday, April 27.

Local police departments are once again partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration for a semiannual prescription drug take-back event.

The University of Arkansas Police Department will participate in the Drug Enforcement Administration's "National Drug Take Back Day" and will accept all excess drugs and used needles from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 26, at the Administrative Services Building, 155 S. Razorback Rd. 

The Administration will focus on six key areas in its first year.

Research shows that binge drinking is down considerably over previous periods.

Alexis Smart, a philosophy student who used to work as a bartender, was in downtown Sacramento when a friend started showing all the signs of being drugged.