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High school seniors’ use of delta-8, a cannabis compound that’s sometimes marketed as “light THC” or a legal alternative to weed, is “appreciable,” according to a new study, particularly in states that don’t have a legal weed option for adults.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued a letter Tuesday to e-commerce companies regarding the sale of pill presses. As regulated entities under the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), e-commerce platforms are generally required to comply with CSA recordkeeping, identification, and reporting requirements on the distribution, importation, and exportation of pill press machines.

DEA Senior Prevention Program Manager Rich Lucey presents "Preventing Drug Use Among College Students: Current Trends, The Dangers of Fake Pills, and The Importance of Strategic Planning" for the Carolina Community Coalition.

More than 23,000 student-athletes from all three divisions participated in the NCAA study.

Centre College student Ethan Banzon's video won second place in the national Red Ribbon Week PSA contest.

Congratulations to the University of Northern Colorado, Centre College, and West Chester University for winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest, cosponsored by DEA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

More than 23,000 from all 3 divisions participated in the NCAA study.

Fentanyl has become a serious threat on college campuses across the country and has claimed the lives of three students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the past two years. Dr. Paul Christo, Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been on the front line of the opioid epidemic, and he says what the country is witnessing now is unprecedented.

The danger of opioid dependency among athletes was explored with St. John’s University students on October 24 by a leading voice on addiction and substance-abuse rehabilitation.

On Oct. 28, the University of Arkansas Police Department (UAPD) accepted all excess drugs and used needles with no questions asked for Drug Takeback Day.