While educating young people on the realities of prescription drug abuse is important, research has shown that traditional fear-based anti-drug messaging is not particularly effective. The “What’s Your Side Effect?” approach is to package information on prescription drugs inside a broader … Continued
Michelle Skiles Rodgers, University of Delaware Cooperative Extension, and Monica Hobbs Vinluan, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, share their thoughts on how youth can play an important role in being a catalyst for system change in this article from the Journal … Continued
The first generation 4-Hers of the Milan Navigators 4-H Club are well on their way to making a difference in the health of their community. After attending a training on how to be health advocates, the youth decided to implement … Continued
Eleven students from Seaford High School, recently volunteered to serve as peer-to-peer educators with the National 4-H Botvins LIfeSkills Training Program. These teens will use the skills they learned in training to help spread anti-drug messages and positive life skills … Continued
SALT LAKE CITY — Noted author and social scientist Arthur Brooks was searching for an epiphany about how to solve the growing opioid crisis when he came across a lecture about poverty by the late Cardinal Francis George of Chicago. … Continued