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Latest Updates

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Campus Video Contest: A Past Winner's Experience

Last year, in early October, a colleague forwarded me the call for submissions for the DEA’s first annual Campus Video PSA Contest. 

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N.J. DEA joins this effort to help those with a drug addiction

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Addressing Marijuana Use in the College Setting

The start of this academic year represents a milestone of sorts for me. I began as a first-year student at the University of Washington (UW) in September 1987; now, 30 years later, I have the honor of working in both a research capacity and a student life capacity at the very campus that shaped my professional identity. 

Opioid education is now a college requirement in this state

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Campuses tackle the opioid epidemic

Opioid abuse prevention program expands in Tennessee, considers future

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Study: Parents less concerned with marijuana than alcohol

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Student Perspective: Promoting a Drug-free Campus

For many students, college marks a time in life where they have a new sense of freedom. They transition into a stage of interdependence where they are largely responsible for daily decisions that will affect their lives now and in the future. This time allows for new experiences, new friends, and new opportunities.

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To Change Students’ Dangerous Behavior, Understand Their Motives

Opioid crisis: How America’s colleges are reacting to the epidemic