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Prevention Profiles: Take Five was launched in January 2018. Each podcast is posted monthly and features interviews with individuals at the federal, national, state, and local levels, based around five questions related to drug misuse prevention among college students.
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 guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Oliver Tacto, Ph.D., Dean of Student Wellness at Maryville University. During the interview, Dr. Tacto discusses how the work of inclusion intersects with preventing drug use, 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!
Dr. Jim Lange

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dr. Jim Lange (Encore)

Join us for this month’s episode of Prevention Profiles: Take Five, an encore presentation featuring Dr. Jim Lange, Director of the Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Drug Misuse Prevention and Recovery, and Coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drug Initiatives at San Diego State University. During the interview, Dr. Lange discusses why colleges and universities should be concerned about impaired driving among college students, some of the biggest challenges that institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities are facing right now, resources available from the Higher Education Center, and more!
Buki Ebeigbe

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dr. Buki Ebeigbe

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Dr. Buki Ebeigbe, a pharmacologist in DEA’s Diversion Control Division. During the episode, Buki discusses the Controlled Substances Act and the various scheduling processes for controlled substances, some of the misperceptions people have about the scheduling process, what fueled her passion to enter this line of work with DEA and her experiences in mentoring college students, and more!
Emily Morrow-Mueller

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Emily Morrow-Mueller

This episode’s guest is Emily Morrow-Mueller, a Senior Prevention Programs Manager at the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. In the episode, Emily provides advice to viewers on engaging their state agency on efforts related to preventing drug use and misuse among college students, discusses some of the top prevention-related issues for colleges and universities in Oklahoma, talks about her agency’s new initiative to create a statewide higher education prevention services network, and more.
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