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Dr. Sally Linowski, from UMass Amherst, is this month's guest on Campus Drug Prevention's \"Prevention Profiles: Take Five.\"

The wait is over – winners of the latest Operation Prevention Video Challenge have just been announced!

(HealthDay News, June 5) Teen heroin users – specifically high school seniors – are more likely to also abuse an average of five other drugs, according to a new study.

(HealthDay News, May 18) Boys who start using marijuana before 15 are more likely to have a drug problem by the time they turn 28 years old, according to new research from the University of Montreal.

(Fox47 News, June 6)  About a third of new heroin users develop a dependency on the drug within a year, according to a new Michigan State University study.

Stop Youth Opioid Abuse is a multi-channel effort from the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), the Ad Council, and the Truth Initiative that focuses on preventing and reducing the misuse of opioids among youth and young adults.

(University at Buffalo, May 10) Marijuana use – especially combined with tobacco use – during pregnancy is connected to low infant birth weight and behavior problems, according to researchers from the University of Buffalo.

(Washington Post, May 14) More U.S. workers tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine in 2017, according to numbers from Quest Diagnostics. The company analyzed more than 10 million drug tests.

(The Guardian, May 17) Between 2004 and 2014, the number of American young people between ages 12 and 21 who tried marijuana as their first drug doubled, according to a study.

(Healthline, May 11) Powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl are being mixed with non-opioids drugs like cocaine and methamphetamine, according to a recent report from JAMA.