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Personal Reflection, Resources
Recognize the risk. Protect those you care about. Get informed. Know the real facts, not the myths. Talk early. A non-judgmental conversation can be the first step toward help. Prevention begins with ...
Personal Reflection, Resources
An Authorial Criminological and Preventive Perspective on Recognizing Risk before Harm Occurs When Risk Becomes Visible There is an uncomfortable truth about prevention: risk is often easiest to recog...
"One pill can kill. Don't risk your life. Drugs don't take away health alone. They can take away dreams, opportunities, and futures. Safer streets. Protected generations."
When someone dies from a drug-related cause, families often face grief layered with shock, unanswered questions, and public misunderstanding. What tends to help Use the person's name. Avoid reduci...
One of the most dangerous features of the current synthetic drug supply is disguise. Tablets may be stamped to resemble prescription medications. Powders may be mixed into other substances. Buyers and...
How-To, Resources, Website Features
Policy change is slow, but it is not abstract. Elected officials respond when constituents speak clearly and persistently. APALD provides a tool to help you find your federal and state representatives...
National headlines about fentanyl come and go. For families, the crisis does not take a break between news cycles. Local stories—school presentations, town hall questions, a memorial in a small city...
Addiction is a complex health and social issue. It is also surrounded by stigma—assumptions that people "chose" their fate, or that families should stay quiet. Stigma has real costs. It de...
Drug-induced homicide is a legal concept used in some cases when a person dies after using illicit drugs, and prosecutors argue that the person who supplied those drugs should be held criminally respo...