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With school starting this week or if its just around the corner, parents and teachers have an important role in protecting young people from abusing prescription drugs. More than 2.1 million teens abused prescription drugs in the United States in 2006…. Continue reading →

Recognizing the Importance and Value of Public Input You may have noticed, over the past year SAMHSA has been making an effort to solicit feedback from interested constituents on a variety of topics. This has not only been done in support of the Presid… Continue reading →

Lights! Camera! Action! The 2011 Voice Awards—to be hosted by NBC’s “Parenthood” star and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Peter Krause—is set to take place on Wednesday, August 24, at Paramount Studios in Hollywood. Since 2005, the Voice Awards… Continue reading →

Written By: Mark Weber, Director Office of Communications Listening for Change was the theme of last week’s National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media* in Atlanta.  The event drew over 1,000 attendees from across the country t… Continue reading →

Over the past year, SAMHSA – as part of its Recovery Support Strategic Initiative – has worked with the behavioral health field to develop a working definition of recovery that captures the essential, common experiences of those recovering from men… Continue reading →

This year at the 5th National Conference on Health Communications, Marketing and Media, the visibility of behavioral health is higher than ever before.  Not only is SAMHSA the co-chair of this year’s conference but there are multiple sessions discus… Continue reading →

Over the past 18 months SAMHSA has experienced many changes, but no bigger change than the identification of the Eight Strategic Initiatives and making prevention SAMHSA’s number one initiative.  Earlier this year SAMHSA unveiled its 2012 budget, an… Continue reading →

Last year the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) in partnership with ChallengePost launched an online challenge platform, challenge.gov, to aggregate all challenges being offered across the federal government.  The intent of challenge.gov is t… Continue reading →