Prevention Links

The NIPC serves as an inhalant referral and information clearinghouse, stimulates media coverage about inhalant issues, develops informational materials, produces ViewPoint (a quarterly newsletter), provides training and technical assistance and leads a week-long national grassroots inhalant education and awareness campaign.

The Wisconsin Clearinghouse is a unit of University Health Services, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse (OPC) is Ontario's longest standing health promotion organization. We help individuals, groups and communities use health promotion strategies to achieve health and well-being.

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center at Indiana University is a statewide clearinghouse for prevention technical assistance and information about alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs for the State of Indiana. It is Indiana's officially designated RADAR Network (Regional Alcohol and Drug Awareness Resource Network) State Center.

Race Against Drugs (RAD), designed in 1990, is a series of drug prevention and awareness programs for youth. Over the past 12 years it has expanded to meet the needs of diverse population groups and communities. The drug prevention activity workbook is the foundation of RAD and was designed for a classroom setting; however it has been effectively used with youth organizations, and on an individual basis.

A directory of programs, research, references and resources dedicated to the prevention of child and adolescent problems and the promotion of youth development in families, schools and communities.

The newly created Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS) administers, coordinates, and recommends policy for improving quality and excellence of programs and activities that are designed to Provide financial assistance for drug and violence prevention activities, Participate in the formulation and development of ED program policy, Participate in interagency committees, groups, and partnerships related to drug and violence prevention, and much more.

The National Center for Responsible Gaming (NCRG) is committed to funding research that someday will identify the risk factors for gambling disorders and determine methods for not only treating the disorder but preventing it, much like physicians can identify patients at risk from cardiovascular disease long before a heart attack.

Partnerships Against Violence Network is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies.  Violence prevention professionals can communicate and share resources through the Pavnet mailgroup.

The Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation

The Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation (ABMRF) is the largest, independent, non-profit foundation in North America devoted solely to supporting research on the effects of alcohol on health, behavior and prevention of alcohol-related problems.

OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS), and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.

 The BACCHUS and GAMMA Peer Education Network is an international association of college and university based peer education programs focusing on alcohol abuse prevention and other related student health and safety issues.

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is the sole Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The Center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs, and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use, and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.

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