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Dr. Eric Davidson, from Eastern Illinois University, is our latest guest on \"Prevention Profiles: Take Five.\" 

(Reuters Health, April 23) Teens that vape (use electronic cigarettes) are probably twice as likely to smoke marijuana as teens who don’t, according to a study entitled “E-Cigarette and Liquid Nicotine Exposures Among Young Children.”

(CNN, May 1) Chris Herren, a former McDonald’s All-American who went on to play for the NBA’s Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets, started struggling with addiction at age 18 when he first tried cocaine

(HealthDay News, May 1) More people now die from overdosing on synthetic opioids – mainly fentanyl – than prescription painkillers, according to a recent study.

(May 7, 2018) The Drug Enforcement Administration’s latest Take-Back Day brought in almost  1 million pounds of unused or expired prescription medication. 

On May 30, 2018 the DEA Museum will host a panel discussion entitled “Designer Drugs: A New Look at Some Old (and Not So Old) Drugs” regarding new medical applications for common drugs of abuse.

(May 1, 2018) The top 10 finalists for the Operation Prevention Video Challenge have been announced!

​In a recently posted advisory, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams emphasized the importance of the anti-overdose drug naloxone.

(Notre Dame News, April 9) In 2010, the private pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma tried to reformulate the powerful painkiller Oxycontin to make it less addictive. But, according to new research, this effort did not help to reduce nationwide drug overdoses and may have amplified the heroin epidemic.

(CNN, April 2) The use of synthetic cannabinoids (sometimes referred to as fake weed) is believed to be behind more than 50 cases of severe bleeding and two deaths in Illinois.