This poster is designed to reach youth with a message about prescription drug misuse. The graphic shows a capsule opening to spill out words that describe the side effects and consequences of prescription drug misuse. It concludes with the tag line: “Do You Know What You Are Getting Into?”
This poster is designed to reach youth with a message about prescription drug misuse. The graphic shows a capsule opening to spill out words that describe the side effects and consequences of prescription drug misuse. It concludes with the tag line: “Do You Know What You Are Getting Into?”
This one page fact sheet briefly explains the Chronic Pain Self-Management Program (CPSMP) and how Arizona residents can register for the program. The CPSMP is an evidence-based, self-management workshop developed by researchers at Stanford University and in Canada. The
This poster is designed to reach youth with a message about prescription drug misuse. With a vivid yellow and orange background, it includes minimal text and highlights the risks of prescription drug misuse. The key message is: “Abuse prescription drugs, and they will abuse you.” Part of
This guide from Partnership at DrugFree.org provides parents and caregivers with specific advice on how to talk to kids to prevent drug and alcohol misuse. It includes age appropriate scripts for starting conversations, guidance on what to say to teens about prescription drugs, advice on
This one page fact sheet provides reasons why law enforcement officers should be trained to administer naloxone to reverse opioid overdose and provides an implementation plan for law enforcement agencies interested in creating a naloxone program. Part of the Arizona ReThink RX Abuse
The Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) program is a specialized training for law enforcement which helps them evaluate, arrest, and prosecute drug impaired drivers. The DRE program began in Los Angeles Police Department and Arizona adopted the program in 1987 and now provides DRE trainings to officers from other states and countries.
This one page fact sheet explains the benefits of Arizona’s Controlled Substance Prescription Monitoring Program (CSPMP) to law enforcement. The document explains how Arizona law enforcement uses the information to investigate cases including doctor shopping, pill mills, fraudulent
This one page fact sheet explains why communities need to have both permanent prescription drug drop boxes and designated prescription drug take back days. Includes advice from 3 Arizona police chiefs about how to set up a program and what you can expect to achieve. Part of the Arizona
The Arizona State Public Health Laboratory has created a program to screen blood samples from individuals with a suspected opioid overdose in order to better understand which opioids are responsible for causing overdoses in the state. Health care providers and institutions can request a courier to pick up samples which are then tested for the qualitative identification of opioids, fentanyl analogs, benzodiazepines, stimulants, cannabinoids, and synthetic cannabinoids. This is the Arizona Department of Health Services website for the laboratory testing program.