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Views from the Field are brief articles offering federal, national, state, and local perspectives about drug misuse in higher education from across the nation.
When I began my career as a prevention professional at a large public university more than two decades ago, I made many of my programming choices based on an instinct that what I was implementing would reduce drug use among our students.
There was a point in my earlier days that I thought talking about strategic planning was a cure for insomnia. I recall wanting to flee strategic planning meetings in order to spend time with students “getting the work done.”
Welcome to our newest website, www.campusdrugprevention.gov, created as a one-stop resource for professionals working to prevent drug abuse among college students.