The Population Health Information Tool (PHIT) is a data portal for Massachusetts health data. As a service of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, PHIT aims to provide data for a healthier Massachusetts.

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Learn about the potential challenges to obtaining useful epidemiological and other data during prevention planning.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Solutions

Cocaine use in the United States has begun to rise in the past few years, and indicators suggest it will continue to rise, at greater levels, in the coming years. This issue brief is designed to help prevention practitioners better understand and prevent this growing problem.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Solutions

Provides an overview of how ACES impact health and opportunity what can be done to prevent them.

Author: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention Publisher: Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) come in many forms and can have long-term impacts on health and well-being into adulthood. This free online training designed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention helps faith, spiritual, and religious leaders, staff members, volunteers, and others who serve children and families understand their role in preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). They will learn:
  • What ACEs are and how they impact lifelong health, opportunity, and wellbeing
  • How to identify ACE risk factors and promote protective factors
  • How faith, spiritual, and religious communities can prevent ACEs or lessen their effects

Author: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Publisher: Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

This issues brief is designed to help substance abuse prevention practitioners better understand and prevent the growing problem of heroin use. Specifically, it provides: an overview of recent trends in heroin use and related consequences; information on national, state and local data sources for heroin-related indicators; an inventory of research-based risk and protective factors associated with heroin use; and evidence-based strategies for preventing heroin use.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)

The guide provides considerations and strategies for key stakeholders (including policy makers, community coalitions, businesses, school administrators, educators, and other community members), states, and the prevention workforce to prevent and reduce marijuana use among youth.

Author: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Publisher: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

This decision-support tool offers a comprehensive listing of available data resources and surveys developed by and for a range of federal agencies and that collect data on marijuana use and its consequences.

Author: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies Publisher: Prevention Solutions@EDC

Presents a list of 16 key data sources for prescription opioids and heroin to inform assessment and planning efforts.

Author: Publisher: Prevention Solutions

This table presents selected strategies to prevent prescription drug misuse. These strategies have been selected because research shows that they directly address common risk factors associated with NMUPD. For each strategy, we provide a brief description and the associated factor(s) it addresses. Please note that while other strategies are currently in use, this list represents the few that have been rigorously evaluated.

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Publisher: Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC)