This report finds that adolescent smoking, drinking, misusing prescription drugs and using
illegal drugs is, by any measure, a public health problem of epidemic proportion, presenting clear and present danger to millions of America’s teenagers and severe and expensive long-range consequences for our entire population.
This article discusses how substance abuse treatment programs are integrating culture into treatment of American Indian and Alaska Native individuals.
This fact sheet describes results from a national study on the normalization of the abuse of prescription stimulants among young adults.
This article describes a collaboration between a university-based research psychologist
and a reservation-based substance abuse treatment program staff that has thus far resulted in a
detailed blueprint for a radically alternative, culturally-grounded intervention developed for reservation residents.
This manual describes the Community Readiness Model and its use in Native communities as a tool to assess readiness for and implementation of suicide prevention efforts.
Preventing Suicide: A Toolkit for High Schools was created to help high schools, school
districts, and their partners design and implement strategies to prevent suicide and
promote behavioral health among their students.
The purpose of this guide is to support AI/AN communities and those who serve them in
developing effective, culturally appropriate suicide prevention plans.
This resource sheet provides links and citations for statistics, policy recommendations, reports, legislation, guides for community planning and program development, suicide prevention programs in Native communities, and evaluation of suicide prevention programs.
This guide discusses suicide prevention practice components across the following points of contact: referral/arrest, courts, probation, detention and secure/non-secure care facilities, and aftercare.
