New Guide for Prevention Professionals on College and University Campuses

Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students, is now available on Campus Drug Prevention!

For many of the 16.8 million students enrolled at America’s two- and four-year degree programs each year, the university experience promotes academic growth, fosters new friendships, and expands understanding of a world outside the home environment.

Unfortunately, the college years are also a time when students may experiment with drugs for the first time.

Drug use remains, for many college health and wellness professionals, an individual issue, despite emerging evidence that the college environment contributes to the initiation of drug use for the majority of college drug users.

College is the ideal setting for innovative, campus-wide programming aimed at preventing and reducing drug use among college students, but these efforts remain few and far between.

This new guide, titled Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students, is intended to bridge that gap, by providing a roadmap for college -and university-based prevention professionals to collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders, from students to administrators, to address campus-wide drug misuse issues. See it below.

Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students

NEW: Prevention With Purpose PowerPoint Presentation 

To complement the guide, DEA also provides this PowerPoint slide deck, which campus- and community-based prevention professionals can use to present information about the guide to their stakeholders. Download.