Middle School

Personalized support and resources for families impacted by addiction, while mobilizing policymakers, researchers and health care professionals to more effectively address addiction systemically on a national scale.

Get Smart About Drugs-A resource for parents, educators, & caregivers.

Learn about the science of addiction and the role of genes. 

Learn the prevention benefits of family dinners by reading this Parent Tool Kit.

Review the peer pressure handout and role-play a variety of refusal skills.

Explore inside the brains of mice on drugs to see the different, unique molecular mechanism of each with your teen.

Review the booklet from DrugAbuse.gov about the science of addiction with your children.

Assess your child's confidence level in eight different situations that could tempt someone to engage in substance use or compulsive behavior. 

The Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11; Patton et al., 1995) is a questionnaire designed to assess the personality/behavioral construct of impulsiveness. Parents can use this as a guage to determine what to focus on when helping children build refusal skills.

Watch videos from experts, celebrities and youth discuss tobacco, e-cigarettes and vaping issues.