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Podcasts

Prevention Profiles: Take Five is a podcast series that was launched in January 2018. Each episode is posted monthly and features interviews with individuals at the federal, national, state, and local levels, based around five questions related to preventing drug use and misuse among college students.
Aurora Rousseau, Ashley Hinton, Bridget Looby

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Aurora Rousseau, Ashley Hinton, Bridget Looby

This month’s guests on Prevention Profiles: Take Five are Aurora Rousseau (University of Northern Colorado), Ashley Hinton (Centre College), and Bridget Looby (West Chester University). Aurora, Ashley, and Bridget represent the schools that won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place, respectively, in the 2023 Red Ribbon Week Campus Video PSA Contest and discuss the inspirations for their PSA submissions, why they entered the contest, and more! The 2024 contest entry period is September 9 -- November 4, 2024.
Chris Jones

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Chris Jones

This month’s guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five is Captain Chris Jones, PharmD, DrPH, MPH, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. During the interview, Captain Jones discusses recent key findings from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, why prescription drug misuse among college students is a concern, how CSAP is helping to facilitate collaboration between colleges and universities and their surrounding communities, and more!
Jonah Neville

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Jonah Neville

Jonah Neville, Health Promotion Specialist at the University of Florida, is this month's guest on Prevention Profiles: Take Five. During the interview, Jonah discusses what it was like trying to establish his presence on campus as well as develop prevention programming virtually right at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; how to navigate all of the information and identify the resources he needed to be effective in his job; balancing between importance and changeability, which helps him determine what to prioritize in his prevention efforts, and more!
Kristina Canfield

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Kristina Canfield

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Kristina Canfield, Executive Director for the Association of Recovery in Higher Education. During the podcast, Kristina talks about how the recovery movement has taken hold on college campuses over the past few years; some of the challenges around supporting students in recovery during the past 2½ years; the impact of stigma on a person’s recovery, progress that’s been made in reducing stigma, and challenges that remain; and more!
Rick Birt

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Rick Birt

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Rick Birt, Director of the Washington, D.C. Highway Safety Office. During the podcast, Rick talks about what he has learned going from focusing on highway safety at a national level with Students Against Destructive Decisions to a territory level in D.C., why viewers should be concerned about impaired driving among college students, some of the initiatives his office is rolling out in D.C. that are relevant to colleges and universities, and more!
Sean Fearns

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Sean Fearns

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Sean Fearns, Chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Community Outreach and Prevention Support Section. During the podcast, Sean talks about DEA’s involvement in preventing drug use and misuse, DEA’s strategic outreach and prevention support to colleges and universities, ways in which institutions of higher education can get involved in National Prescription Drug Take Back Day and Red Ribbon Week, and more!
Dave Closson

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dave Closson M.S. (DJC Solutions)

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Dave Closson, founder and owner of the consulting company DJC Solutions. Dave's background includes serving as a T/TA Specialist at SAMHSA's Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies, in the Illinois National Guard, as a campus police officer at Eastern Illinois University, and as Assistant Director of the Illinois Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Other Drug and Violence Prevention. Dave draws upon personal experience to discuss how prevention professionals can help veterans suffering from PTSD, bolster their relationship with law enforcement, improve their strategic planning, and more.
Beverly Johnson

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Beverly Johnson

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Beverly Johnson, Director of Prevention Services for Alabama’s Department of Mental Health. During the episode, Beverly offers advice for viewers who struggle with engaging their state agency around efforts to prevent drug use among college students; discusses how a state agency such as hers helps to support local communities, especially communities of color, in their efforts to prevent drug use; provides an overview of Alabama’s recently launched statewide fentanyl awareness campaign, and more!
Erin Ficker

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Erin Ficker

This month’s Prevention Profiles: Take Five guest is Erin Ficker, Prevention Project Director, Prevention Solutions at Education Development Center, who discusses EDC’s planning process to produce DEA’s supplemental resources to Prevention with Purpose: A Strategic Planning Guide for Preventing Drug Misuse Among College Students. Erin also discusses the benefits of using the Strategic Prevention Framework, the challenges that prevention professionals sometimes encounter in using the SPF, and more!
Dr. Jim Lange

Prevention Profiles: Take Five - Dr. Jim Lange

Join us for this month’s episode of Prevention Profiles: Take Five, which features 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!
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