Here you will find a range of resources from leading advocacy groups/nonprofit organizations and federal agencies that offer information on prescription drug abuse prevention.

Above the Influence

• Abovetheinfluence.com is a web site designed for teens to help them understand the negative pressures and influences around them and how to stand up to them.

Acetaminophen Awareness Coalition

• KnowYourDose.org

Web site offers a variety of resources about how to use medicines containing acetaminophen appropriately and to help change behaviors that could lead to an unintentional acetaminophen overdose.

Administration for Aging (AOA) Administration for Community Living

• American Medicine Chest Challenge
  Website offers checklists, videos, and news about safely storing medication, and related topics about preventing prescription drug abuse.

American Pharmacists Association

• ​Pharmacists: Partnering with physicians to curb the national prescription drug abuse crisis

Editorial in special pain section of PharmacyToday, Sept. 1, 2013

Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America

• ​Series: Primers

This series consists of seven publications, each covering one element of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Strategic Prevention Framework.

Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse, Columbia University (CASAColumbia)

• ​Preventing Addiction Changes Everything

Web site offers information about screening tools, addiction, interventions and resources specific to addiction and teens.

National Council on Aging Center for Healthy Aging

• ​Screening and Brief Interventions for Alcohol and Psychoactive Medication Misuse & Abuse

Screening and Brief Interventions (SBI) is an evidence-based program to prevent and intervene early for alcohol and medication misuse for older adults at risk. This webinar presents the steps involved in SBI.

National Council on Patient Information and Education (NCPIE)

• ​Taking Action to Prevent & Address Prescription Drug Abuse: A Resource Kit for America’s College Campuses

Downloadable handouts for peer educators and campus leaders to educate college students about prescription drug abuse prevention.

• ​Maximizing Your Role as a Teen Influencer: What You Can Do to Help Prevent Teen Prescription Drug Abuse

Workshop module designed to educate and equip teen influencers—parents, grandparents, teachers, coaches, community and school-based health care providers with strategies for confronting and preventing teen prescription drug abuse.

• ​Not Worth the Risk—Even if It’s Legal

Campaign features educational messages in English and Spanish encouraging parents to talk to their teens about preventing prescription medicine abuse.

National Institute on Drug Abuse

• ​Preventing and Recognizing Prescription Drug Abuse

Research Report Series fact sheet presents key information on types of drugs and prevention strategies.

• ​PEERx: Science-Based Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention

Web site dedicated to teen prescription drug abuse prevention includes multiple resources, including materials to engage teens.

Office of National Drug Control Policy

• ​Ending America’s Opioid Crisis

Details action the current White House is taking to confront opioid abuse in America and a list of more information and resources.

• The National Drug Control Strategy serves as the Nation’s blueprint for reducing drug use and its consequences.

Web site offers resources and links to prescription drug abuse prevention strategies.

• The Administration’s Strategy

Offers details about the most current national drug control strategy; includes overview of prescription painkiller drug abuse prevention.

• ​The Drug Crisis

Learn about the White House’s approach to the current drug crisis and campaigns, including the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, a federal grant program provides funding to community-based coalitions. that organize to prevent youth substance use.

Partnership for Drug-Free Kids

• ​Preventing Teen Abuse of Prescription Drugs Fact Sheet

Presents the facts from A-Z about teens and prescription drug abuse prevention.

• ​Pact360 Rx Action Toolkit: Drug Prevention and Early Intervention Education for Parents and Youth

Includes a video, a discussion guide, and programs for individuals and organizations concerned about preventing prescription drug abuse.

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority

• The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority is charged with eliminating medical errors by identifying problems

and recommending solutions that promote patient safety facilities providing medical care or services. Tools available for opioid medication safety are: Opioid Knowledge Self-Assessment (health care providers), and Organization Assessment of Safe Opioid Practices (health care settings).

Prescribe to Prevent

• ​Prescribe Naloxone, Save a Life
  Web site for health care professionals interested in learning about naloxone and how to prescribe and dispense it. FAQs, patient education, community resources, and research information about naloxone also are available from the web site.

Patient Evaluation Resources for Opioid Risk Management (PERFORM)

• ​Web site designed for health care professionals; provides information on how to assess the risk of medication abuse in patients on short- or long-term opioid therapy. Developed by Purdue Pharma L.P.

Project Lazarus: Community-based Overdose Prevention and Opioid Safety with
Community Care of North Carolina

• ​The Project Lazarus web site provides information about preventing drug overdoses and meeting the needs of individuals living with chronic pain to communities seeking to build prescription drug abuse prevention programs.

PROTECT Initiative

• ​Up and Away and Out of Sight 

Educational program reminds parents and caregivers how to protect children and keep medicines and vitamins out of reach.

Purdue Pharma

• ​TeamAgainstOpioidAbuse

Developed by Purdue Pharma, which manufacturers two of three opioid formulations available with abuse deterrent properties, TeamAgainstOpioidAbuse aims to educate healthcare providers and patients about abuse-deterrent opioid-based technology.

Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD)

• ​Web site offers resources for peer-to-peer education, prevention, and activism for teens and parents, including contracts for life.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA)

• ​Getting High on Prescription and Over-the-Counter Drugs Is Dangerous: A Guide to Keeping Your Teenager Safe in a Changing World

Fact sheet for parents explaining the dangers and warning signs of prescription drug abuse. Materials developed with the National Council on Patient Information and Education for specific age groups and for health care providers.

• ​Helping Students Avoid Prescription Drug Abuse: An Important Lesson

Downloadable brochure advises educators how to talk with their students about the abuse of prescription drugs and its dangers.

• ​Talking to Your Patients About Prescription Drug Abuse

Advises health care providers on screening questions to ask teen and adult patients about possible misuse of prescription drugs.

• ​You’re in Control: Using Prescription Medicine Responsibly: Not Worth the Risk

Brochure for college students outlines how to use prescription medication responsibly

• ​You’re in Control: Using Prescription Medicine Responsibly: Not Worth the Risk (Poster)

Poster encourages youth to make smart decisions about their medications by recognizing the risks of prescription drug abuse and using medications responsibly. Includes resources to learn more and to find treatment.

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See the Directory to find out more about the organizations and web sites committed to educating the public about prescription drug abuse.