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Substance Use Prevention Month

October is Substance Use Prevention Month - and we're Telling the Prevention Story. Join SAMHSA, as partners in prevention!

• To inspire action, each of us can share how prevention is improving lives in our communities.
• We aim to prevent substance use in the first place, prevent the progression of use, and reduce harms. And we have the prevention playbook to do so.
• Prevention science (with decades of research and community-based experience) shows that prevention works.
• Prevention strengthens protective factors and reduces risk factors ― in individuals, families, schools, communities, and society.
• Prevention helps us get ahead of substance use and mental health challenges - so that youth, families, and communities can thrive.

Prevention Month lifts up the national conversation - to showcase prevention's positive effects on communities across the country. View the toolkit on the SAMHSA website.